Italian Glass: Century 20 (Schiffer Book for Collectors with Price Guide) [Hardcover]

Leslie Pina (Author)

Book Description

Series: Schiffer Book for Collectors with Price Guide | Publication Date: July 2007

This long-awaited book will be a valuable tool for collectors, dealers, and researchers of modern Italian glass. Most comprehensive volumes are written in Italian, and none includes a value guide. This one, in English, includes information and photographs that will make this book a standard reference on the subject. With approximately 700 full color photos of almost 1000 examples of glass from 1900 to 2000, and an emphasis on the highly collectible mid-century period, nearly every company and technique is represented. Company histories, designer biographies, glossary, bibliography, index, and value guide make this an ideal reference book.

Product Details

• Hardcover: 239 pages
• Publisher: Schiffer Publishing (July 2007)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0764319299
• ISBN-13: 978-0764319297
• Product Dimensions: 11 x 8.6 x 1.1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 3.8 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.6 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (7 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #670,861 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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16 of 16 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Best book for General Murano Glass in the US, March 29, 2006

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A. Caudle "San Marcos Art Glass" (Alabama) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Italian Glass: Century 20 (Schiffer Book for Collectors with Price Guide) (Hardcover)

I strongly recommend Leslie Pina's book to collectors of Murano glass in the US. While other books have pictures of the more elite museum pieces, Leslie Pina's book has hundreds of pictures of glassware that we see most often. It is a valuable reference in learning to identify and appraise the work of the quality artisans -- Fratelli Toso, Dino Martens, Salviati, Venini, Seguso, Campanella, Cenedese, and others. It is the most useful book on Murano glass that I own.

5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Bible of Italian Glass, August 14, 2006

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T. L. Collier "Kiwi Tanya" (Auckland, New Zealand) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Italian Glass: Century 20 (Schiffer Book for Collectors with Price Guide) (Hardcover)

This book is awesome! I have just started collecting Murano glass and wanted a book to compare for the real thing or fake. This book was recommended by an avid collector and has become my bible. Well set out and the pictures and descriptions are extremely usefull.

5 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Good reference but overrated, October 28, 2009

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Robert Torchia - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Italian Glass: Century 20 (Schiffer Book for Collectors with Price Guide) (Hardcover)

One thing that has always amazed me is how scholarship on the so-called applied arts lags so far behind that devoted to the fine arts. There can be no doubt that this is a useful reference book with decent illustrations and general boilerplate information on the various makers, but it is by no means definitive and I would check out the competition. I personally don't care for the arrangement of illustrations by type of glass (bowl, vase, figurine, etc.) and would greatly prefer to have the chapters arranged by maker with the individual pieces of all types in chronological order. The text has the feel of something hastily put together, and I especially miss the presence of a chapter on connoisseurship because unless a Murano piece is signed or has a sticker (which can be added well after the fact)we are stuck with some very questionable attributions. It makes me very uneasy that the price values were mostly supplied by Rago's, a commercial auction house in Lambertville, New Jersey), and one wonders as to the degree of self interest with which these values were determined. Murano is such an interesting and complex field that it deserves the degree of scholarly finesse we get from Helmut Ricke in his very fine book Czech Glass 1945-1980, which I regard as a standard by which other books on glass ought to be judged.