East Meets West: Cross-Cultural Influences in Glassmaking in the 18th & 19th Centuries

The exhibition, East Meets West: Cross-Cultural Influences in Glassmaking in the 18th & 19th Centuries was on view at The Corning Museum of Glass November 18, 2010 – October 30, 2011. It explored the cultural exchanges of glassmaking between the East and West, and documented stylistic developments in Western Europe and East Asia during the early modern period. Florian Knothe, curator of European glass, narrates.