Glass in the Rijksmuseum. Volume II

The Rijksmuseum boasts one of the best-known collections of West-European and notably Dutch glass. Volume 2 of 'Glass in the Rijksmuseum', together with its companion volume published in 1993, charts the entire collection. Divided into three sections, this book documents the collection of engraved glass. Section I describes Dutch diamond-point engraved glasses dating from the 16th to the first half of the 19th century. 18th and early 19th-century Dutch and related German glass are treated in Section II, while Section III focuses on the collection of 18th-century Dutch stippled glassware. The descriptions of the objects, many of which are photographed from different angles, are brief and lucid. Five registers make this handsome publication a useful reference work.