Collectible Glass Rose Bowls: A History and Identification Guide

by Sean Billings and Johanna S. Billings

Book Overview

Organized by time periods, the book lists the primary bowl manufacturers along with the characteristics, folklore, and uses of their products. This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1582210098
• ISBN13: 9781582210094
• Release Date: July 1999
• Publisher: Antique Trader Books
• Length: 198 Pages
• Weight: 1.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 8.5" x 11.0"

Customer Reviews

Excellent book about a fascinating subject

The authors really knows their glass, and especially glass rose bowls. The material is presented in a clear, well documented manner and the pictures are just wonderful to look at. I highly recommend this book to glass lovers and glass collectors.

Exquisite photography combined with delectable prose

Collectible Glass Rose Bowls is an excellent history of the glassmaking artistry of rose bowls. The book starts with a detailed explanation of rose bowls and then studies examples created in the different eras leading up today. Johanna also gives great details on the method of manufacture of the rose bowls that are pictured and a bit of history on the companies that produced each item. She explains and defines many glass terms that are useful in the study of other glass forms.The photography is terrific. The fine workmanship in the rose bowls nearly jumps off the page. If you think rose bowls are simple and boring, you will change your mind in very short order.Collectible Glass Rose Bowls is an excellent tutorial on the hobby of glass collecting. Even if you don't collect rose bowls, you will learn much from reading this very enjoyable book. This book is highly recommended for all glass collectors.