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• Murano glass — paper weights Murano glass is a famous product of the Venetian island of Murano. Located off the shore of Venice, Italy, Murano has been a commercial port as far back as the 7th century. By the 10th century, the city had become well known for its …   Wikipedia

• Venetian glass — is a type of glass object made in Venice, Italy, primarily on the island of Murano. It is world renowned for being colorful, elaborate, and skilfully made.Many of the important characteristics of these objects had been developed by the 13th… …   Wikipedia

• Northwood, John — ▪ British glassmaker born 1836, Wordsley, Staffordshire, Eng. died 1902       English glassmaker, a technical innovator who sparked a resurgence of British interest in classical Greek and Roman glassworking methods, particularly in the art of… …   Universalium

• GLASS — Earliest Times The earliest manufacture of glass does not antedate the late third millennium B.C.E., when the first glass beads were made in Mesopotamia and Egypt. The invention of glass vessel making dates to the mid second millennium B.C.E.,… …   Encyclopedia of Judaism

• Marinot, Maurice — ▪ French glassmaker born 1882, Troyes, Fr. died 1960, Troyes       French painter and glassmaker who was one of the first 20th century glassworkers to exploit the aesthetic qualities of weight and mass and one of the first to incorporate bubbles… …   Universalium

• pottery — /pot euh ree/, n., pl. potteries. 1. ceramic ware, esp. earthenware and stoneware. 2. the art or business of a potter; ceramics. 3. a place where earthen pots or vessels are made. [1475 85; POTTER1 + Y3] * * * I One of the oldest and most… …   Universalium

• literature — /lit euhr euh cheuhr, choor , li treuh /, n. 1. writings in which expression and form, in connection with ideas of permanent and universal interest, are characteristic or essential features, as poetry, novels, history, biography, and essays. 2.… …   Universalium

• List of Carnegie Mellon University people — This is a list of encyclopedic people associated with Carnegie Mellon University in the United States of America.Notable students and alumni =Nobel laureates= *John L. Hall (B.S. 1956, M.S. 1958, Ph.D. 1961), 2005 Nobel Prize in Physics *Finn E.… …   Wikipedia

• cameo glass — an ornamental glass in which two layers, often blue and opaque white, have been cased, and on which the design has been treated in the manner of a cameo. [1875 80] * * * Glassware decorated with figures and forms in coloured glass carved in… …   Universalium