A catalogue of the Late Antique gold glass in the British Museum / Daniel Thomas Howells ; edited by Chris Entwistle and Liz James.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Howells, Daniel Thomas, author.

Contributor:

Entwistle, Christopher, editor.

James, Liz, editor.

Series:

Research publication (British Museum) ; 198.

Research publication, 1747-3640 ; 198

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

British Museum.

Gold glass--Catalogs.

Gold glass.

Glassware, Roman--Catalogs.

Glassware, Roman.

Christian antiquities--Catalogs.

Christian antiquities.

Glassware--England--London--Catalogs.

Glassware.

British Museum--Catalogs.

England--London.

Genre:

Catalogs.

Physical Description:

v, 183 pages : illustrations (some color), maps ; 30 cm.

Place of Publication:

London : British Museum, [2015]

Contents:

An overview of gold glass scholarship

A history of the British Museum's collection of gold glass

Material considerations: morphology (Daniel Howells) and compositional analysis (Andrew Meek)

The manufacture of gold glass: past attempts and new experimental reproductions

Some practical considerations: distribution and context, workshop identity and date, function and costs

Catalogue of the gold glasses. Christ and his saints ; Biblical and Apocryphal scenes ; Secular portraits ; Miscellaneous scenes of Jewish, pagan and everyday life and inscriptions ; Modern reproductions and fakes

Distribution of gold glass findspots and associated contexts

Profile drawings

A modern attempt at reproducing cut and incised technique sandwich-glass vessels.

Notes:

"This volume is based on Dan's thesis which was completed between 2007-10 as part of a fully funded AHRC Collaborative Doctoral Studentship at the University of Sussex with the British Museum (Department of Britain, Europe and Prehistory)"--Page v.

Editors' names from title page verso.

"The British Museum holds one of the most extensive and important collections of early Christian and late antique gold glass in Europe and the United States. With the last publication of the British Museum's collection in 1901, this catalogue by Daniel Thomas Howells not only brings the collection up to date, but sets it within a wider historical context, questioning basic assumptions about the form, function and costs of gold glass in a fourth-century context. The book offers a reinterpretation of technical methods, workshop practices, location and distribution and is the first study to differentiate workshops on the basis of detailed iconographic analyses of individual pieces of gold glass both in the British Museum and the Vatican. Howells also provides fascinating new insights into early Christian iconography as well as other scenes of Jewish and pagan life in late antiquity which have been largely overlooked in previous studies of gold glass"--Page 4 of cover.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 174-182).

ISBN:

9780861591985

0861591984

OCLC:

892307743