HISTORY and ARCHAEOLOGY OF GLASS
©
Jean
HARTWIG

Art of glas since the XVIII century
Master
craftsman of Art - Awarded Better Artisan of France
all the studies remain subjected to the authorizations
and royalty legal ©
I) The manufacture and the use of zaffre or will zaffera (cobalt) and of the smalte
by the glassmakers, during the XVI ème, XVII ème and XVIII ème centuries published in the Review “Glass” October 2001 > See the file
II) The use of vegetable ashes in the glassmaking, since Antiquity until the XVIII ème century publication on line envisaged
III) Discovery of glass. Legends, assumptions and realities. Study with modeling of an ancient formula of glass
(Shelf of Assurbanipal) and of the variation of 75 vitrifiable mixtures resulting from this formula. > See the file
IV) An exceptional creator of the School of Nancy (developed) > Charles Schneider “from bronzes to the signed "pāte de verres" Daum Sc”
V) Art of sulphides and cameo , (A short explication of the Art of Sulphides cameo > see the file
Publications:
- Technology and Techniques of manufacture to the Schneider Glassmakings (personal notes extracted the book in preparation, and published in: the Catalogue of exposure of
National
museums: Charles Schneider Glassmakings with the XX ème
century. Museum of Beautiful arts of Nancy June 2003.
In progress:
Glassmakings and Schneider Crystal manufactures. “from Epinay on the Seine to Lorris in the Forest of Orleans: work in progress