Glass in the Rijksmuseum. Volume II
English Text.
Zwolle, 1995; clothbound, pp. 496, 592 b/w ill., cm 21,5x27,5.
(Catalogues of the Decorative Arts in the Rijksmuseum Amsterdam. Volume II).
series: Catalogues of the Decorative Arts in the Rijksmuseum Amsterdam. Volume II
ISBN: 90-400-9746-1
- EAN13: 9789040097461
Subject: Collections,Glass
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Weight: 1.91 kg
The Rijksmuseum boasts one of the best-known collections of West-European and notably Dutch glass. Volume 2 of 'Glass in the Rijksmuseum', together with its companion volume published in 1993, charts the entire collection. Divided into three sections, this book documents the collection of engraved glass. Section I describes Dutch diamond-point engraved glasses dating from the 16th to the first half of the 19th century. 18th and early 19th-century Dutch and related German glass are treated in Section II, while Section III focuses on the collection of 18th-century Dutch stippled glassware. The descriptions of the objects, many of which are photographed from different angles, are brief and lucid. Five registers make this handsome publication a useful reference work.