Word: glassworker
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...this day. One of the areas in which they persist, however faintly, is that of art. Given the collections of it in the U.S., not to mention the undying appetite for Oriental carpets, one could hardly say that Islamic art is unfamiliar to Americans. Yet the ceramics and glasswork, the architecture and mural decoration, the metalwork and (except for Mughal miniatures) the paintings that form the relics of this vast imperial culture are much less known to museumgoers than their equivalents from Japan or China...
...glazier's equipment, and set up shop in a large studio on Manhattan's upper West Side. In Roermond (southern Holland), where he had left behind him a vast, factorylike workshop with 15 busy assistants, blue-eyed Joep (pronounced "Yoop") Nicolas had engineered such towering feats of glasswork as the famed memorial windows for Queen Wilhelmina in Amsterdam's Nieuwe Kerk...
...Favrile Glass," heavy and iridescent. This glass was the invention of Louis Comfort Tiffany, son of the late Charles Lewis Tiffany who founded Manhattan's famed Tiffany & Co., jewelers, silversmiths & stationers. Although Glassman Tiffany is a vice president, assistant treasurer and director of the jewel firm, painting and glasswork have been his chief interests...