Variant Title:
Growth and scope of the collection
Also known as: 33rd annual Seminar on Glass
Shelving title: Corning Museum of Glass, Seminar on Glass, 1993, Tape 6
Lecture title published in brochure: Great collector : Felix Slade (1790-1868) and the beginnings of the British Museums's European glass collection
Notes:
Lecture title.
David Whitehouse, Director, The Corning Museum of Glass ; Aileen Dawson, Curator, Department of Medieval and Later Antiquities, British Museum.
Filmed during the annual Seminar on Glass at The Corning Museum of Glass, in Corning, NY, October 15, 1993.
19th century collector Felix Slade bequeathed his entire glass collection to the British Museum. Aileen Dawson provides a glimpse of some of his façon-de-Venise, Dutch, German, Spanish, French and English glass. Examples shown include engraved, enameled, ruby, millefiori, and other techniques, as well as some pieces not from the Slade bequest. A question and answer session follows her lecture.
VHS.
DVD.
Digitized from VHS by Sax Communications.
Title of Dawson's lecture is different from that printed in the Seminar brochure.
Event Notes:
Filmed during the annual Seminar on Glass at The Corning Museum of Glass, in Corning, NY, October 15, 1993.
