商品簡介
Glass enthusiasts, collectors, researchers, and historians are the audience for this reference, which contains about 4,200 definitions of technical and common terms (in alphabetical order) related to glassware, colors, processes, materials, forms, decorative styles, pattern motifs, artisans, companies, and designers, from antiquity to the present. The text is supported by b&w photos and drawings. Pickvet, an author, glassware appraiser, and instructor at Delta College, includes more information on European firms in this edition and draws information from company sources like patents, founding dates, property deeds, closing/bankruptcy filings, journals, wills, death certificates, tax records, maps, and newspapers, as well as museums and local libraries, researchers, historians, and authors. Annotation c2012 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
