In sparkling company : reflections on glass in the 18th-century British world / Christopher L. Maxwell, with contributions by Marvin Bolt, Kimberly Chrisman-Campbell, Jennifer Y. Chuong, Melanie Doderer-Winkler, Anna Moran, Marcia Pointon, and Kerry Sinanan.
304 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), color map, color portraits ; 28 cm
Collection:
Reference Library
Copyright Status:
Copyright Not Evaluated
Classification:
Books
Notes:
"This publication accompanies the exhibition 'In Sparkling Company : Glass and Social Life in Britain during the 1700s,' held at The Corning Museum of Glass from May 9, 2020-January 3, 2021"--Title page verso.
Contents:
Director's foreword / Karol B. Wight -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction / Christopher L. Maxwell -- People in glass houses: the polished and the polite in Georgian Britain / Christopher L. Maxwell -- Slavery and glass: tropes of "race" and reflection / Kerry Sinanan -- Glass in 18th-century British portraiture / Marcia Pointon -- The British scientific glass enlightenment during the long 18th century / Marvin Bolt -- The glass of fashion / Kimberly Chrisman-Campbell -- "The eye as well as the appetite must be car'd for": glass and dining in Ireland, about 1680-about 1830 / Anna Moran -- L'officier sableur: sand painters as decorators of the 18th century dining table / Melanie Doderer-Winkler -- "A gloss equal to glass": the material brilliance of early American furniture / Jennifer Y. Chuong.
Subject Terms:
Glassware -- Social aspects -- Great Britain -- 18th century -- Exhibitions. | Crystal glass -- Social aspects -- Great Britain -- 18th century -- Exhibitions. | Crystal glass -- Great Britain -- 18th century -- Exhibitions. | Glassware -- Great Britain -- 18th century -- Exhibitions.
Contributors:
Bolt, Marvin, 1963- contributor. | Chrisman-Campbell, Kimberly, contributor. | Chuong, Jennifer Y., contributor. | Doderer-Winkler, Melanie, contributor. | Moran, Anna, contributor. | Pointon, Marcia R., contributor. | Sinanan, Kerry, contributor. | Corning Museum of Glass, host institution, issuing body.