Author : Darryl Reilly
Publisher : Krause Publications
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 18,89 MB
Release : 2002-08-01
Category : Antiques & Collectibles
ISBN : 9780873494380
Covers nearly 350 patterns for Pattern Glass pieces with alternate names, original production numbers, and reproduction information. Features more than 20,000 listings with detailed descriptions including size, inscriptions, color, appearance, dates, and values.
Author : Rhea Mansfield Knittle
Publisher :
Page : 592 pages
File Size : 13,13 MB
Release : 1927
Category : Glass manufacture
ISBN :
Author : Alice Hulett Metz
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 24,63 MB
Release : 2000
Category : Pattern glass
ISBN : 9781574321548
The Early American Pattern Glass Society, with the help of a committee of eight experienced pattern glass collectors and dealers from across the United States, has completely reviewed and revised the content of this wonderful book originally compiled in the 1950s and 1960s by Alice Hulett Metz. Considered by many collectors as the "Bible" of collecting, Metz's Early American Pattern Glass has been dubbed the "only book needed to buy, sell, or collect." Nine hundred black and white photographs of approximately 1,500 patterns from Aberdeen to Zephyr are shown. Clear pictures, authoritative reproduction information, uses, rarities, bargain patterns, plate numbers from standard texts, and accurate indexing are provided. The original format and commentary have been left intact, and updated information has been supplied where appropriate. Collectors will be pleased with the resurrection of this essential guide to early American pattern glass.
Author : John Stuart Gordon
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 327 pages
File Size : 22,77 MB
Release : 2018-01-01
Category : Antiques & Collectibles
ISBN : 0300226691
"Glass can be decorative or utilitarian, and its forms often reflect technological innovations and social change. Drawing on an insightful selection from the Yale University Art Gallery and other collections at Yale, American Glass illuminates the vital and often intimate roles that glass has played in the nation's art and culture. Spectacularly illustrated, the publication showcases eighteenth-century mold-blown vessels, nineteenth-century pressed glass, innovative studio work, and luminous stained-glass windows by John La Farge and Louis Comfort Tiffany, the latter reproduced as a lush gatefold. These are considered alongside beguiling objects that broaden our expectations of glass and speak to the centrality of the medium in American life, including one of the oldest complex microscopes in the United States, an early Edison light bulb, glass-plate photography, jewelry, and more. With an essay on the history of collecting American glass and discussions of each object that present new scholarship, this engaging book tells the long and rich history of glass in America--from prehistoric minerals to contemporary sculptures"--Dust jacket front flap.
Author : Kyle Husfloen
Publisher :
Page : 198 pages
File Size : 26,65 MB
Release : 1992
Category : Antiques & Collectibles
ISBN : 9780870696121
Provides an overview of the history of American pressed glass, offers advice on collecting, storing, and displaying pressed glass, and looks at representative pieces and patterns
Author : Henry Francis du Pont Winterthur Museum
Publisher :
Page : 446 pages
File Size : 42,69 MB
Release : 1993
Category : Antiques & Collectibles
ISBN :
This study of 17th-, 18th- and 19th-century American glass is based upon the Henry Francis du Pont collection in the Winterthur Museum. Categories include ornamental vases, lighting devices and bottles. Most objects are shown life-size and each carries a physical description and brief history.
Author : Bettye S. James
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 15,4 MB
Release : 2009-01-15
Category : Cake stands
ISBN : 9781574325966
This is the first book on identifying Early American Pattern Glass cake stands. It features 1,150 photographs, mostly color, of cake plates and their pedestals, as well as descriptions of the patterns themselves. Its easy-to-use format presents pattern names listed alphabetically by popular name. Measurements, colors, stains or decorations, dates made, manufacturers' names, and values are included. The index reflects all known names with the popular name listed in bold print. Included are 465 patterns from Actress to Zipper Cross, plus 29 that are unidentified, and 64 manufacturers dating from 1872: Cambridge, Fostoria, Heisey, Riverside, U.S. Glass, and others, and misconceptions about U.S. Glass patterns are clarified. 2009 values.
Author : Rebecca K. Shrum
Publisher : JHU Press
Page : 233 pages
File Size : 28,94 MB
Release : 2017-08-30
Category : History
ISBN : 142142312X
The evolving technology of the looking glass -- First glimpses : mirrors in seventeenth-century New England -- Looking glass ownership in early America -- Reliable mirrors and troubling visions : nineteenth-century white -- Understandings of sight -- Fashioning whiteness -- Mirrors in black and red -- Epilogue
Author : George Skinner McKearin
Publisher : Crown
Page : 894 pages
File Size : 22,97 MB
Release : 1941
Category : Glass manufacture
ISBN : 9780517001110
Reference to types of glass and the history of numerous glass houses.
Author : Ronald Hoffman
Publisher : UNC Press Books
Page : 479 pages
File Size : 42,28 MB
Release : 2012-12-01
Category : History
ISBN :
These thirteen original essays are provocative explorations in the construction and representation of self in America's colonial and early republican eras. Highlighting the increasing importance of interdisciplinary research for the field of early American history, these leading scholars in the field extend their reach to literary criticism, anthropology, psychology, and material culture. The collection is organized into three parts--Histories of Self, Texts of Self, and Reflections on Defining Self. Individual essays examine the significance of dreams, diaries, and carved chests, murder and suicide, Indian kinship, and the experiences of African American sailors. Gathered in celebration of the Institute of Early American History and Culture's fiftieth anniversary, these imaginative inquiries will stimulate critical thinking and open new avenues of investigation on the forging of self-identity in early America. The contributors are W. Jeffrey Bolster, T. H. Breen, Elaine Forman Crane, Greg Dening, Philip Greven, Rhys Isaac, Kenneth A. Lockridge, James H. Merrell, Donna Merwick, Mary Beth Norton, Mechal Sobel, Alan Taylor, Laurel Thatcher Ulrich, and Richard White.
