Cut and Engraved Glass, 1771-1905
- Author(s): Dorothy Daniel
- Category: Glass
- Publisher: M. Barrows and Company Inc.
- Publish year: 1952
- ISBN: 9678000017192
- Number of Pages: 448
Collectors and some glass manufacturers have long shared the idea that there was little "old" American cut glass extant in this country, even though statistics clearly show that a great deal of fine lead glass was cut here in the early years. When I declared my intention to dig out all the available information about our American cut glass and consolidate it in a book of reference for collectors and students, several authorities gloomily shook their heads, "Where angels fear to tread!" they warned. Others declared flatly that all cut glass found in this country obviously not of the late nineteenth century was English or Irish.
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COVER
CONTENTS
PREFACE
CHAPTER I - CUT GLASS: AN AMERICAN HERITAGE
CHAPTER II - HOW TO DETECT IMITATIONS
CH A PTER III - THE MAKING OF GLASS
CHAPTER IV - CUTTING, ENGRAVING, ETCHING
CHAPTER V - CAMEO AND INTAGLIO GLASS
CHAPTER VI - COLORED CUT GLASS
CHAPTER VII - ENGLIS H, IRISH, OR AMERICAN?
C H A PTER VIII - THE EARLY AMERICAN PERIOD 1771 - 1830
CHAPTER IX - THE MIDDLE PERIOD 1830 - 1880
CHAPTER X - THE BRILLIANT PERIOD, GLASSHOUSES 1880 - 1905
CHAPTER XI - PATTERNS OF THE BRILLIANT PERIOD
CHAPTER XII 0 CUT GLASS, TODAY AND TOMORROW
CHAPTER XIII - CANDLESTICKS, CANDELABRA, CHANDELIERS
CHAPTER XIV - LAMPS
CHAPTER XV - DECANTERS, COLOGNE BOTTLES, CONDIMENT SETS
CHAPTER XVI - BOXES, BASKETS, KNIFE RESTS
CHAPTER XVII - CARE OF CUT GLASS
CHAPTER XVIII - ADVICE TO COLLECTORS
APPENDIX
INDEX