Glas in het Amsterdams Historisch Museum en Museum Willet-Holthuysen

The collection of glasses in the Amsterdam Historical Museum is a surprisingly rich and varied one, dating from the 16th until the 20th century. The present collection counts some sevenhundred objects. The catalogue of this collection consists of two parts. The first part contains five essays that highlight the different aspects of the museum's glass-collection: the Amsterdam glass houses and their production, welfare wishes on drinking glasses in the urban culture of the seventeenth and eighteenth century, glass-engravings by the 18th century Amsterdam engraver Jacob Sang and finally the Muller Glasshouse in relation to the other businesses specialising in glass and crystal in Amsterdam in the early 20th century. In the second part of the catalogue, all glasses from the collection are scientifically described and depicted. The catalogue is completed by a glossary, a source book and a bibliography, concordances between inventory numbers and catalogue numbers (including the Willet-catalogues from 1901 and 1907) and various indexes that include weaponry , geographical names and inscriptions. Exclusively for this book, all glasses were photographed again, including the signatures of engravers and other details. Highlights are rendered in colour.