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Roman glass in the Corning Museum of Glass / David Whitehouse.

Roman glass in the Corning Museum of Glass / David Whitehouse.

 
 
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Author/Artist: 
Whitehouse, David, 1941-
Other Authors: 
Corning Museum of Glass.
Publisher: 
Corning, N.Y. : Corning Museum of Glass, c1997-c2003.
Series: 
The Corning Museum of Glass catalog series
Subjects: 
Smith, Ray Winfield Art collections.
Sangiorgi, Giorgio, b. 1886 Art collections.
Strauss, Jerome, 1893-1978 Art collections.
Corning Museum of Glass Catalogs.
Glassware, Ancient CMG
Glassware New York (State) Corning Catalogs.
Glassware, Greco-Roman.
Glassware, Roman.
Glassware, Roman Museums New York (State) Corning.
Cameo glass, Roman. YKM
Record Number
ISBN: 
0872901394 (v.1)
0872901505 (v.2)
0872901556 (v.3)
Bib ID: 
58895
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Description
3 v. : ill. (some col.) ; 31 cm.
Notes
Vol. 1 contains descriptions and illustrations of 481 objects made between the 1st century B.C. and the 7th or 8th century A.D.
Vol. 2 contains descriptions and illustrations of 387 objects made between the first and seventh centuries.
Vol. 3 contains descriptions and illustrations of 333 objects made between the first and seventh centuries.
Vol. 1-3 digitized by Boston Photo Imaging in June 2011. Text-searchable .pdf created from digital files.
Reviewed by Andrew Oliver, Jr. in Journal of Roman Archaeology, v. 13, 2000, pp. 686-690 (volume 1).
Reviewed by Beaudoin Caron in Phoenix, v. 54, 2000, pp. 183-185 (vol. 1).
Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
Vol. 3 distributed by Hudson Hills Press, New York.
Includes concordances for accession numbers, the Sangiorgi collection, the Smith collection, and the Strauss collection.
Contents: 
v. 1. Objects formed by casting or pressing --
Vessels formed by casting and blowing --
Cameo glass --
Blown vessels without decoration --
Objects with picked-up or blobbed decoration --
Cut, engraved and wheel-abraded objects. --
v. 2. Objects with mold-blown ornament or inscriptions --
Objects with applied ornament --
Gold glasses --
Painted and gilded glass. --
v. 3. Pendants and disks with stamped ornament --
Miscellaneous small objects --
Imitations and forgeries --
Addenda --
Ceramic copies of the Portland vase --
Chemical analyses.
Object/Material Note: 
Includes CMGL materials: 107763, v. 2, p. 152.