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Porcelain

Tait, Hugh

Hamlyn Publishing Group Limited

Recording the passing of time has challenged mankind for thousands of years, but it was not until the Middle Ages that a fundamental advance was made when the first mechanical clocks harnessed the power of the falling weight and the unwinding spring. Hugh Tait traces the history of clocks and watches from the earliest medieval examples to modern times. From the grand long-case clocks to the most exquisite of watches, this book shows how invention and mechanical ingenuity have been matched with craftsmanship and artistry for more than five hundred years.

Clocks and Watches

Science & Math

Technology

Harvard Univ Pr

Clocks and Watches (British Museum Paperbacks)

Arts & Photography

Graphic Design

Harvard University Press

Catalogue of the Waddesdon Bequest in the British Library: The Silver Plate (v. 2)

British Museum Press

<p>The third of a proposed five volumes describing the Renaissance courtly objects collected by Baron Ferdinand Rothschild and bequesthed to the British Museum. 51 `curiosities' are here illustrated, described and discussed in detail, including exotica made from shell, hardstones, rock-crystals and silver.</p>

Catalogue of the Waddesdon Bequest in the British Museum III. The `Curiosities' (v. 3)

A CLOCK OR A WATCH? NOWADAYS, MOST PEOPLE MAKE THE SIMPLE DISTINCTION THAT A WATCH, UNLIKE A CLOCK, IS DESIGNED TO BE CARRIED OR WORN ON THE PERSON.

Clocks in the British Museum

BRITISH MUSEUM

The golden age of Venetian glass

The Waddesdon bequest: The legacy of Baron Ferdinand Rothschild to the British Museum

Reference

Catalogs & Directories

British Museum Publications

5000 YEARS OF GLASS (PAPERBACK) /ANGLAIS

The fragile beauty of glass has ensured its popularity through the ages in forms ranging from simple beakers to ornate decorative masterpieces. This book traces the history of glass from its origins in western Asia some 5,000 years ago, though the invention of glass blowing around the first century B.C., to the introduction of mechanized processes and new styles in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. It highlights the flourishing industries of ancient Mesopotamia and Egypt, the elegant vessels of the Islamic Near East, the superb mastery of Renaissance Venice, and the wide-ranging experiments of modern Europe and America.A unique feature of the book is the series of photographic sequences especially taken in the studio of a modern glassmaker as he reconstructs ancient techniques; these are accompanied by a glossary of glassmaking terms.

Five Thousand Years of Glass

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