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Creator:
Maxwell, Christopher
Title(s):
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.
Published/Created:
Corning, New York : The Corning Museum of Glass, [2020]
© 2020
Physical Description:
304 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), color map, color portraits ; 28 cm
Holdings:
Reference Library
NK5143 .M46 2020 (LC) Oversize
Accessible in the Reference Library [Hours]
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Full Orbis Record:
http://hdl.handle.net/10079/bibid/15564645
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.
The exhibition was rescheduled to be held at The Corning Museum of Glass, Corning, New York from May 7, 2021 to January 9, 2022.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Subject Terms:
Crystal glass -- Great Britain -- 18th century -- Exhibitions.
Crystal glass -- Social aspects -- Great Britain -- 18th century -- Exhibitions.
Glassware -- Great Britain -- 18th century -- Exhibitions.
Glassware -- Social aspects -- 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.
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  • 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.