David Whitehouse

Volume 1: 381 pp., more than 500 color illus., drawings, 1997

These books present more than 860 objects from one of the world's most comprehensive collections of Roman glass. The catalog entries are arranged by technique.

Volume 1 discusses objects formed by casting or pressing, "color-band" vessels made by casting and blowing, cameo glass, undecorated objects formed by blowing, blown pieces with picked-up or blobbed decoration, and objects with cut, engraved, and wheel-abraded decoration.

Volume 2 focuses on objects decorated or inscribed by inflation in a mold, objects decorated with trails or appliques, medallions and fragments of gold glass, and objects with painted, reverse-painted, painted and gilded, or gilded decoration. Each catalog entry consists of a detailed description, usually accompanied by a comment on the significance of the object and notes on similar pieces in other collections. Every object is illustrated, in

most cases by a color photograph and a line drawing that shows the profile. Each volume also includes concordances and an extensive bibliography.

Volume 3, scheduled for publication in 2003, will complete the catalog of Roman glass in The Corning Museum of Glass.