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In Summary The exhibition is accompanied by a catalog, In Sparkling Company:
Reflections on Glass in the 18th-Century British World (The Corning
“One medium that is often overlooked in scholarly discussions of
18th-century art, design, and material culture is glass,” said Christopher Museum of Glass, 2020). Publication contributors include Marvin
Bolt, Kimberly Chrisman Campbell, Jennifer Chuong, Melanie
L. Maxwell. “In Sparkling Company will demonstrate the many func- Doderer Winkler, Christopher Maxwell, Anna Moran, Marcia
tions and meanings of glass in the exuberant social life of the 1700s.” Pointon, and Kerry Sinanan.
In Sparkling Company: Glass and Social Life in Britain During the 1700s
will include loans from: the Victoria and Albert Museum, London; Sir Title image: Man’s coat and waistcoat, green woven velvet,
John Soane’s Museum, London; the Museum of London; the Fashion cream silk, metallic-thread embroidery, glass-paste stones.
Museum, Bath; Royal Museums Greenwich, London; Los Angeles France, about 1780. Coat: chest, 99 cm; waist, 88 cm; length, 111 cm.
County Museum of Art (LACMA); Penn State University Library; Waistcoat: chest, 112 cm; waist, 97 cm; length, 64 cm.
Cleveland Museum of Art; and The Museum of Fine Arts in Boston. Fashion Museum Bath (BATMC II.06.2, II.32.29) photo: Fashion Museum Bath

About The Corning Museum of Glass About Christopher Maxwell
The Corning Museum of Glass (CMoG) is the foremost authority Christopher (Kit) Maxwell was appointed Curator of European
on the art, history, science, and design of glass. It is home to the Glass at The Corning Museum of Glass in 2016. A curator and scholar,
world’s most important collection of glass, including the finest Maxwell has a varied background in the academic, museum, and
examples of glassmaking spanning 3,500 years. gallery worlds.
Maxwell graduated with a BA in History of Art from the
University of Cambridge in 2001 and took a post at the Royal
If You Go
Collection, first in the Royal Library and Print Room at Windsor
This exhibition is open through January 3, 2021. The Corning Castle, followed by the Publications Office at St James’s Palace. In
Museum of Glass is open year-round, seven days a week (and is only 2005, he completed his master’s degree in Decorative Arts and
closed on January 1, Thanksgiving Day, December 24, December Historic Interiors at the University of London, and became an
25). All Museum galleries are self-guided, and admission tickets, assistant curator in the ceramics and glass section at the Victoria &
which are good for two days, are untimed. Adults are $20, seniors are Albert Museum. For five years, he worked on the reinterpretation
$17, and children 17 and under are free. The Museum is open of the museum’s ceramics galleries, developing a specialty in
9am-5pm until May 21. Beginning on May 22 and continuing 18th-century European ceramics, with a particular focus on
through September 7, summer hours are in effect and the Museum is French porcelain.
open 9am-8pm. visit.cmog.org/plan-your-visit In 2010, Maxwell left the V&A to pursue his PhD at the
University of Glasgow, which he completed in 2014. The topic of his
How to Buy the Book dissertation research was the dispersal of the Hamilton Palace
In Sparkling Company, Reflections on Glass in the 18th Century collection. Maxwell rejoined the Royal Collection as project curator
British World will be available for purchase or for online order through during this time, and since 2013, worked with Travis Hansson Fine
the shop at The Corning Museum of Glass starting on May 9. Art, a private art dealer based in Beverly Hills.

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