Format:
Book
Secondary title:
Smithsonian illustrated library of antiques; Variation: Smithsonian illustrated library of antiques.
Author(s):
Gardner, Paul Vickers Hoffman Joan P.
Keyword(s):
Glassware.
Year:
1979
Pages:
127 p.
Publisher:
Cooper-Hewitt Museum
Publisher location:
[New York]
Accession number:
5737680
Label:
Box 6
Notes:
ill. (some col.) ; 29 cm.
Techniques of glassmaking -- Glass from the Pharaohs to the Sultans -- Venice and its influence -- Glass in the New World -- Advice for glass collectors.
Includes index./ Bibliography: p. [123]
Paul Vickers Gardner ; [text editor, Joan Hoffman ; picture editor, Lisa Little].
Book
Language:
English
Call number:
LC: NK5104; Dewey: 748.2
ISBN:
LCCN: 78-62735
Abstract:
Traces the history of ornamental and useful glass production from antiquity to the WW 1 years of 1914-1918 and touches upon a few of the important developments occurring later in the 20th century.