ISBN：9780714150956

书名：5000 Years of Glass

作者：Hugh Tait

出版：The British Museum，

装帧：平装，280页，300幅彩插+25幅黑白图

语种：英文

开本：21.9×27.6cm

This classic book traces the history of glassmaking from its origins in Western Asia some 5000 years ago, through the invention of glassblowing around the first century BC, to the introduction of mechanised processes and new styles in the 19th and 20th centuries.

It highlights the flourishing industries of ancient Mesopotamia and Egypt, the extraordinary achievements of the Roman Empire, the elegant vessels of the Islamic Near East, the superb mastery of Renaissance Venice and the wide- ranging experiments of modern Europe and America.

With a new final chapter by John P. Smith, Editor of The Glass Circle journal, to bring the book up-to-date with the latest developments, 5000 Years of Glass is still the definitive single- volume general history of this most versatile art form.