Journal of Glass Studies, Volume 47
248 pages; Published 2005 by The Corning Museum of Glass

Two of the nine articles in this volume present historical and archeometric studies of glasses found in Beirut. Other articles pertaining to ancient glass focus on Roman glass in Greece and a Roman mosaic glass bowl from the Wadi Dura in Yemen.

Paolo Zecchin, an independent scholar from Venice who is studying the history of glass, offers two articles on the Muranese specialty of aventurine and the origins of Venetian beadmaking.

For students of European glass, there is also a historical survey of the Harrach Glassworks, the second-oldest continuously operated Bohemian glassworks, which will celebrate its 300th anniversary in 2012. Another article examines the Cadmiologia of the Prussian mining director Johann Gottlob Lehmann (1719-1767), which features the most detailed available account of a preindustrial wood-fueled glass furnace. The article presents a transcript and an English translation of this treatise, and it discusses some characteristics of Lehmann's furnace.

The final contribution describes another remarkable document: a portfolio titled Manufacture of Window Glass, written by Jacob Cist (1782-1825), a founding partner of the first glassworks in Washington, D.C. Cist's papers, which provide important insights into the mid-Atlantic glass industry between 1807 and 1818, include elegant drawings of glass furnaces from the Washington works and other factories.

Summaries of all of these articles are provided at the back of the volume.

The "Notes" section of the Journal includes brief reports on various glass-related subjects, including a French goblet in Venetian style at The British Museum and objects from the Ernesto Wolf Collection that are now on permanent display in Stuttgart. Notes detailing recent acquisitions by The Corning Museum of Glass discuss The Robert E. and Carol J. Nelson Collection of more than 300 glass animals created by Steuben Glass, as well as Tiffany and Lalique archives added to the collection of the Museum's Rakow Research Library.

The volume also includes color illustrations and brief descriptions of 49 recent important acquisitions made by public and private collections in the United States and abroad.