Notes:
Published on the occasion of an exhibition held at the Museum of Decorative Arts in Prague, May 31-September 16, 2012; the West Bohemian Museum in Plzeň, September-December 2012; and the Museum of Glass and Jewellery in Jablonec nad Nisou, January 31-May 26, 2013.
Published simultaneously in Czech as: Z Nového Světa do celého světa.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 422-431) and index.
Complimentary copy; Arbor Vitae; 2012; 1000125640; 1000125639
Goblet designs on endpapers.
Contents:
Three centuries of the glassworks in Neuwelt --
Three centuries of the Harrach glass --
Baroque, rococo and neo-classicism, 1712-1810 --
Empire, Biedermeier and the rococo revival, 1810-1850 --
Historicism, 1850-1880 --
The search for new possibilities, 1880-1895 --
Harrach art nouveau, 1895-1915 --
Harrach art deco, 1915-1945 --
New glass approaches, 1945-1990 --
The present, 1990-2012.
The Counts of Harrach and the glassworks in Neuwelt / Jan Luštinec --
Principal dates in the history of the glassworks in Neuwelt --
The Counts of Harrach's glassworks and its international retail business / Florian Knothe --
Harrach glass from the baroque to neo-classicism / Helena Brožková --
Cutting, pastes embedded into glass, types of glassware manufactured in the empire period / Jan Schöttner --
Coloured glass of the Biedermeier period and the rococo revival / Jan Schöttner --
Embedded pastes of the Biedermeier period and the rococo revival / Jan Schöttner --
The forms and cut in the Biedermeier period / Jan Schöttner --
The forms, cut and Venetian smelting technique in the period of the rococo revival / Jan Schöttner --
Glass with engraved decoration and Dominik Biemann, 1800-1850 / Jarmila Brožová --
Glass decorated with painting, 1800-1850 / Jarmila Brožová --
The Great Exhibition of the Works of Industry of All Nations, London 1851 / Jan Mergl --
Glass of the waning rococo revival period / Jan Mergl --
Harrach glass in the antique revival style / Jan Mergl --
General German Exhibition, Munich 1854 / Jan Mergl --
Universal Exhibition, Paris 1855 / Jan Mergl --
Great Exposition, London 1862 / Jan Mergl --
Harrach Renaissance revival: glass in the alt Deutsch style / Jan Mergl --
World's Fair, Vienna 1873 / Jan Mergl --
The Centennial International Exhibition, Philadelphia 1876 / Jan Mergl --
Renaissance revival glass of the 1870s and 1880s / Jan Mergl --
Neo-baroque and second rococo revival glass / Jan Mergl --
Harrach glass in Islamic and Japanese style / Jan Mergl --
Hot-shaped and decorated glass / Jan Mergl --
International Exhibition, Sydney 1879-1880 / Jan Mergl --
World's Fair, Antwerp 1885 / Jan Mergl --
World's Fair, Paris 1889 / Jan Mergl --
National Jubilee Exhibition, Prague 1891 / Jan Mergl --
Columbian World's Fair, Chicago 1893 / Jan Mergl --
Harrach drinking glassware at the time of historicist style / Jan Mergl --
Art nouveau hot-shaped and decorated glass / Jan Mergl --
Art nouveau painted glass / Jan Mergl --
Art nouveau etched glass / Jan Mergl --
Art nouveau engraved glass / Jan Mergl --
Art nouveau cut glass / Jan Mergl --
World's Fair, Paris 1900 / Jan Mergl --
World's Fair, St. Louis 1904 / Jan Mergl --
Drinking glassware of the art nouveau period / Jan Mergl --
Harrach glass in the period of the 1920s and 1930s / Jan Mergl --
International Exhibition of Decorative Arts and Modern Industry, Paris 1925 / Jan Mergl --
Drinking glassware of the inter-war period / Jan Mergl --
Historical techniques and new technologies / Lenka Marglová Pánková --
Drinking sets and the new colour palette of hot-refined glass / Lenka Merglová Pánková --
A new form in new conditions / Lenka Merglová Pánková.
