Staletá Praha 39, 2/2023, 66-95 | DOI: 10.56112/sp.2023.2.04

Forgotten glass from Prague in the collections of the Museum of decorative arts in Prague

Hedvika Sedláčková¹, Dana Rohanová²

¹ Uměleckoprůmyslové museum v Praze, ulice 17. listopadu 2/2, CZ-110 00 Praha 1

² Vysoká škola chemicko-technologická v Praze, Ústav skla a keramiky, Technická 1905/5, CZ-166 28 Praha 6

In 1940 and 1941 The Museum of Decorative Arts in Prague bought eight sets of glass from Prague buildings without further context of their discovery. The assemblages comprise of Gothic, late Gothic and Renaissance glass. Most represented is Renaissance glass, which comes from one large and four smaller sets. These collections enlarge the number of sites with glass finds in the Malá Strana and Old and New Towns of Prague, and present types of glass in the late Gothic style hitherto almost unknown from the Prague environment. Chemical analyses performed by the SEM/EDS method revealed not only the variability of the composition in all periods, but also indicate the possible origins of the glass products.

Keywords: Prague – glass – Gothic – late Gothic – Renaissance – chemical composition of glass – glass batch – Museum of Decorative Arts in Prague

Grants and funding:

Článek vznikl za finanční podpory Ministerstva kultury v rámci institucionálního financování dlouhodobého koncepčního rozvoje výzkumné organizace Uměleckoprůmyslové museum v Praze (MK000023442).

Published: April 12, 2024