Scientific research in early Chinese glass : proceedings of the Archaeometry of Glass Sessions of the 1984 International Symposium on Glass, Beijing, September 7, 1984, with supplementary papers / edited by Robert H. Brill and John H. Martin ; symposium sponsored by TC17: The Archaeometry of Glass, a technical committee of the International Commission on Glass.

Scientific research in early Chinese glass : proceedings of the Archaeometry of Glass Sessions of the 1984 International Symposium on Glass, Beijing, September 7, 1984, with supplementary papers / edited by Robert H. Brill and John H. Martin ; symposium sponsored by TC17: The Archaeometry of Glass, a technical committee of the International Commission on Glass.

 
 
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Author/Artist: 
Brill, Robert H.
Other Authors: 
Martin, John H., 1922-2007.
International Commission on Glass. TC17: The Archaeometry of Glass.
Conference Name: 
Archaeometry of Glass Sessions (1984 : Peking, China).
International Symposium on Glass (1984 : Peking, China).
Publisher: 
Corning, N.Y. : Corning Museum of Glass, c1991.
Subjects: 
Glassware China.
Glass manufacture China History.
Glassware, Ancient China Analysis.
Record Number
ISBN: 
0872901262
Bib ID: 
34754
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Description
ix, 212 p. : ill., map ; 28 cm.
Notes
Digitized by OCLC Digitization Services in 2008.
Also available online in the Science Research database, full text.
Reviewed by Robert K. Liu in Ornament, v. 16, no. 3, Spring 1993, pp. 84-85.
Reviewed by Roderick Sprague in Beads, Journal of the Society of Bead Researchers, v. 4, 1992, pp. 69-72.
Reviewed by Nick Pearce in Arts of Asia, v. 23, no. 4, July/Aug. 1993, pp. 124-127, ill.
Includes bibliographical references.
"A publication of the Corning Museum of Glass."
Contents: 
Introduction to the symposium papers / Gan Fuxi --
The early glass of China / An Jiayao --
"A glass garment" from a Western Han tomb in Jiangsu province / Cheng Zhuhai, Zhou Changyuan --
Investigations of some ancient Chinese lead glasses / Shi Meiguang ... [et al] --
Chemical analyses of some early Chinese glasses / Robert H. Brill, Stephen S. C. Tong, Doris Dohrenwend --
Lead isotope studies of early Chinese glasses / Robert H. Brill, I. Lynus Barnes, Emile C. Joel --
Similarities between ancient Chinese glasses and glasses excavated in Japanese tombs / Kazuo Yamasaki, Masayo Murozumi --
Chinese glass technology in Boshan around the 14th century / Yi Jialiang, Tu Shujin --
Analyses of some Qing period Chinese glasses: an interim report / Pamela England, James C.Y. Watt, Lambertus van Zelst --
Physical properties of early Chinese glasses / Robert H. Brill, John F. Wosinski --
A glass bi and decorated sword from Hunan province / Gao Zhixi --
Early glasses excavated in Hubei province / Hou Dejung --
A note on some lead-barium glasses from India (summary) / H. C. Bhardwaj --
An account of Qing dynasty glassmaking / Yang Boda --
Some glasses from Zhou dynasty tombs in Fufeng Country and Baoji, Shaanxi / Wang Shixiong --
Scientific studies of early glasses excavated in China / Zhang Fukang --
A compilation of lead isotope ratios of some ores from China published by Chen Yuwei, Mao Cunxiao, and Zhu Bingquan / Robert H. Brill, Margery Chen --
A Han dynasty glass spearhead from Changsha / Xiong Zhuanxin --
A preliminary study of Han dynasty glass in Guangxi / Huang Qishan --
Some glass in the Museum of Chinese History / Fan Shimin and Zhou Baozhong.
Object/Material Note: 
Includes CMGL material: 127888, p.