Author: WHITEHOUSE, DAVID (1941- )
Title: Roman Glass in the Corning Museum of Glass: Volume 2
Description: Corning. N.Y. : Corning Museum of Glass 2002. First Edition. An exceptional copy; fine in an equally fine dw. Particularly and surprisingly well-preserved; tight. bright. clean and especially sharp-cornered. Literally as new and still in the publisher's protective shrink-wrap.; 8vo 8' - 9' tall; 368 pages; Physical description: 1v. : 368p.illus. (some colour) ; 31cm. Summary: The Corning Museum which owns the greatest glass collection in the world! Recently celebrated its 50th anniversary. Its collection of Roman glass is one of the largest anywhere. This is a truly spectacular production with a colour photo and profile drawing of every object. Various objects have Greek inscriptions; Christian and Jewish symbols; zoomorphic vegetal and abstract motifs. Two volumes cover nearly a millennium of Roman history. Treating everything from fragments to such renowned masterpieces as the Morgan Cup. the Paris Plate. and the Daphne Ewer. - Hudson Hills Press has a track record of important and successful publications in this field: American Glass 1760-1930 and Early Ancient Glass. Subjects: Corning Museum of Glass - Catalogs. Glassware - Rome - Catalogs - History. Glassware. Roman - History - Catalogs. Series: The Corning Museum of Glass catalog series.Weight in Kg appr.:

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