Open AccessSLOW AND DISCONNECTED? THE HISTORIOGRAPHY OF 17TH–18TH CENTURY GLASS IN ESTONIA AND THE PROSPECTS OF INTERDISCIPLINARY RESEARCH BASED ON A CASE STUDY OF PÄRNU COUNTY
Author(s) -
Monika Reppo
Publication year - 2019
Publication title -
baltic journal of art history
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.102
H-Index - 1
eISSN - 2346-5581
pISSN - 1736-8812
DOI - 10.12697/bjah.2019.18.06
Subject(s) - typology , historiography , period (music) , factory (object oriented programming) , point (geometry) , history , consumption (sociology) , archaeology , art history , genealogy , visual arts , art , sociology , social science , aesthetics , computer science , geometry , mathematics , programming language
This article provides an overview of the research into 17th–18thcentury glass in Estonia that has been lacking to date. Works onindustrial archaeology, artefact studies and genealogy are discussed,thereby offering a useful reference point for comparative studies onregional dynamics, influences on glass consumption and production,and the origins of foreign products, merchants and glassmakers. Theuse of art as an iconographic source is described in an attempt topresent material that could help to realise art history’s full potentialin studying glass in Estonia during this period. The potential ofinterdisciplinary research that combines all of the sources notedabove is highlighted through a case study on the research prospectsof Pärnu glassworks based on previously unstudied and unpublisheddata. Based on information from archival records, genealogy,cartography and typology, it is determined that a factory did existin Pärnu in the first half of the 17th century that could potentially beeven older than the factory at Hüti. This could significantly changeour understanding of the beginning of glass production in Estonia.