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Light pink glass cased with opaque white, cameo carved with bathing scene.
Exhibitions (1)

Cameo Glass: Masterpieces from 2000 Years of Glassmaking
Venue(s)
Corning Museum of Glass 1982-05-01 through 1982-10-31
Cameo glass, one of the most costly and difficult decorating techniques since first century B.C., is documented and illustrated in this catalog. Included are examples from Rome, Islam, and China, as well as English 19th-century masterpieces by John Northwood and George Woodall among others.
For the purposes of this catalog, the term “cameo glass” is used to refer to cased glass objects with two or more differently colored layers. The outer layer is usually an opaque or opalescent white, and the outer layer or layers have been carved in to leave the decoration standing in relief against a body of contrasting color. Shading is produced by thinning down the carved layer; highlights are created where the glass is left thickest.
Both this catalog, and the exhibition for which it was created, documents the 2000-year cameo glass tradition.
Publications (34)
The Fabulous History of Thomas Webb & Sons: Part I: The 19th Century (2013)
illustrated, p. 15, fig. 12;
BIB# AI92497
The 2012 Portland Vase Project: Recreation of a Masterpiece (2012)
illustrated, p. 26, bottom right;
BIB# 131722
The Corning Museum of Glass (2009-01)
illustrated, p. 235, Fig. 6;
Glass: A Pocket Dictionary of Terms Commonly Used to Describe Glass and Glassmaking (2006)
illustrated, p. 19;
BIB# 96551
Layers of Wonder: Majestic and Marvelous Cameo Glass (2003-05)
illustrated, p. 55;
Glass in Art, History, and Science at The Corning Museum of Glass (2003)
illustrated, p. 70, no. 14;
BIB# AI64198
Y'oroppa amerika no ant'iku garasu : shiru, kau, kataru, kansh'osura (2002)
illustrated, p. 59;
BIB# 74885
The Corning Museum of Glass, A Guide to the Collections (2001) (2001)
illustrated, p. 93;
BIB# 68214
The Corning Museum of Glass: A Decade of Glass Collecting 1990-1999 (2000)
illustrated, p. 39, #48;
BIB# 65446
English Cameo Glass in The Corning Museum of Glass (1994)
illustrated, cover; pp. 7, 49, 62, fig. 45;
BIB# 35913
Glass: A Pocket Dictionary of Terms Commonly Used to Describe Glass and Glassmaking (1993)
p. 17; back cover;
BIB# 35660
Cameo Glass: Masterpieces from 2000 Years of Glassmaking (1982)
illustrated, pp. 73, 114, #64;
BIB# 30609
The Glass Collector (1982)
illustrated, p. 49;
Multimedia (1)

Moorish Bathers
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