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Generally, the results showed a good or at Report 2000. Institute of Nuclear Chemistry and Tech- least satisfactory agreement between them. Addi- nology, Warszawa 2001, p.70. tionally, the agreement of K results, which have [16]. Heide F., Wlotzka F.: Meteorites, Messengers form been obtained on the one hand using INAA at the Space. Springer-Verlag, Berlin 1995. INCT and on the other hand, using the 40K mea- [17]. Bem H., Gallorini M., Rizzio E., Krzemińska M.: surements within ASS-500 network at the Central Environ. Int., 29, 421 (2003). CENTRAL EUROPEAN CRYSTAL GLASS OF THE FIRST HALF OF THE 18th CENTURY Jerzy Kunicki-Goldfinger, Joachim Kierzek, Piotr Dzierżanowski1/, Aleksandra J. Kasprzak2/ 1/ Faculty of Geology, Warsaw University, Poland 2/ National Museum in Warsaw, Poland Since 1998, a project of investigation into 18th cen- tative chemical analysis of the samples taken from tury central European vessel glass has been under- selected objects. Some preliminary results of the way. Physicochemical analysis has been carried energy dispersive X-ray spectrometry analysis out, as well as stylistic analysis of over 1000 ob- (EDXRF) had been already discussed [2,3]. Here- jects of different provenience. A scheme of the under, some further results in regard to the elec- whole project has been built on three main steps tron probe microanalysis (EPMA) of the selected and had been already discussed in a previous pa- samples will be taken over, and we want to focus per [1]. These steps are historical studies, non-de- on the characteristics of crystal glass which were structive examination of the vessels, and quanti- recognized among the glass manufactured in cer- RADIOCHEMISTRY, STABLE ISOTOPES, 90 NUCLEAR ANALYTICAL METHODS, GENERAL CHEMISTRY tain places in central Europe during the first half veloped probably somewhere on the French-Nether- of the 18th century. lands borderlands, chalk glass – credited to Michael In the 17th century, in some centers of northern Müller (1639-1709) in Bohemia, and lead-crystal Europe, new technologies of colourless glass were glass – ascribed traditionally to George Ravenscroft experimented with. It was the consequence of sci- (1618-1681) in England. The first two mentioned ence development of that time, and the migration quickly spread over the continent. But if chalk glass of glassworkers that caused the spread of techno- (later called Bohemian glass, too) became the real- logical innovations. In some glasshouses, new types ly “popular” one; the manufacturing of crystal glass of furnace construction, new kinds of fuel (coal), was characteristic of only a limited number of glass- new raw materials, batches, and so on, appeared. houses that mainly run under royal, ducal or aristo- Many written historical documents may direct our cratic patronage. Michael Vickers writes “No longer attention to certain territories, and information, were kings and princes the arbiters of taste, but revealed in recent years, might lead us to the state- this role was increasingly played by the middle ment that most of the late 17th and early 18th cen- classes of Europe and America. The eighteenth cen- tury luxury colourless glass in almost all of Europe, tury witnessed these important changes” [11]. He including English lead-crystal, could have their tech- writes in relation to the changing role of rock crys- nological roots somewhere on the French and Dutch tal and glass. It also seems true, however, in regard borderland. However, few results of the chemical to the differentiation of crystal glass as a most valu- analyses of these glasses have been known to clearly able metal at this time, and chalk glass as a cheaper support such statement up to now. one; but enough good to fulfil the new baroque The significant changes in the glass technology taste, which expressed itself in frequently dense can be observed already in the earliest 60s in the rich decoration. This decoration occasionally could Netherlands, Netherlands/French borderlands and even be used on metal of imperfect quality. Never- almost immediately on the British islands; in the theless, this simplified history of baroque glass tech- 70s, among other things, also in central Europe nology in northern Europe nowadays seems not [4-6]. Louis le Vasseur d’Ossimont (1629-1689), entirely accurate. Firstly, chalk was already in us- French native, was probably the first and most im- age in western Europe in time of Michael Müller; portant glassworker known to us, who transferred and secondly, lead compounds were used for col- new technology of crystal glass to central Europe. ourless metal in the continent probably indepen- He appeared in Bohemia in Buquoy service in dently of the influence of English technology. Trac- 1673 and established a glasshouse in Nové Hrady ing the succeeding steps of the introduction of the (Gratzen) [7,8]. The lists of raw materials used by new raw materials has, until now, been very puz- him there (which included, among other things, zling. quarz pebbles, saltpeter, arsenic, borax, chalk, wine The terminological context of this crystal glass stone) were characteristic of crystal glass batch. is no less complicated. It is not the intention of the This set of raw materials appeared in Nové Hrady authors to discuss this problem here, but at least at the same time when Johann Kunckel published two of its aspects need be highlighted. The first one crystal glass recipe in “Ars vitraria experimentalis” concerns the differentiation between the original [9]. At present, it is very difficult to state where technological terms and the terms introduced to and when this new batch appeared first in central the professional literature by art historians during Europe. But what is obvious, in the light of docu- the last two centuries. A term Bohemian crystal con- ments as well as of the results of the chemical analy- stitutes one of such examples – whereas crystal glass ses of glasses discussed below, is that these raw was manufactured in Bohemia only in a few glass- materials were characteristic of crystal glass in the houses in the last quarter of the 17th century and last quarter of the 17th century and the 1st half of then probably not before the middle of the 18th the 18th century, as well.