Crizzling – a problem in glass conservation

Studies in Conservation

Volumn 20, Issue , 1975, Pages 121-134

  Brill, Robert H ^a  

^a Assistant Curator of Ancient and Islamic Glass   (United States)

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EID: 84975019048     PISSN: 00393630     EISSN: 20470584     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1179/sic.1975.s1.021     Document Type: Article

References (9)

1. There are numerous accounts of Ravenscroft's early experimentation. One is: Hartshorne, A., ‘Antique Drinking Glasses’, Brussel and Brussel, New York, 1968, pp.240-241. The term ‘crizzle’ was applied to glasses as early as Ravenscroft's time. The common usage of the word was to describe roughening of surfaces, or the crackling of sunburnt skin on the face or hands, an apt parallel to the appearance of these glasses.
2. Hedvall, J. A., Jagitsch, R. and Olson, G., Uber das Problem der Zer-Störung antiker Gläser, ‘Transactions of Chalmers University of Technology’ No.118, Gothenburg, Sweden, 1951. We are not attempting here to compile a complete bibliography on this subject.
3. Brill, R. H., The scientific investigation of ancient glasses, in ‘Proceedings of the Eighth International Congress on Glass’, London, 1968, pp.47-68; Incipient crizzling in some early glasses, ‘Bulletin of the American Group of the International Institute for Conservation of Historic and Artistic Works’, 12 (1972).
4. There are many editions of Antonio Neri's `L'Art Vetraria'. The first edition was printed in Florence in 1612; the first English translation, by Merrit, was in 1662. R. M. Organ has also described this chemical effect [91.
5. Brill, R. H., Scientific studies of stained glass, ‘Journal of Glass Studies’, 12 (1970), 185–192.
6. Adams, P. B., Crack propagation of annealed glass during exposure to water, in ‘Tenth International Congress on Glass’, No. 11, The Ceramic Society of Japan, Kyoto, 1974, pp.16-23.
7. Other experiments have also been attempted or are as yet incomplete, so they are not discussed here. These include various approaches to determining water contents, and electron microscopy.
8. Bimson, M. and Werner, A. E., The danger of heating glass objects, ‘Journal of Glass Studies’, 6 (1964), pp.148–150.
9. Bimson, M. and Organ, R. M., The safe storage of unstable glass, ‘Museum News’, 46 (1968), pp.39–47.