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Library. Lighting, which includes lamps, chandeliers, and other
forms of architectural lighting, is a diverse category of
glassmaking that often combines utility with art. The Museum’s
collection ranges from fragile ancient Roman oil-burning lamps
to majestic 19th-century English chandeliers made for Indian
Glass in Ancient Rome In the fourth and fifth centuries AD, the
glassmakers of the Roman world were in a class of their own.
Glassmaking and glassworking were separate activities.
Glassmakers used tank furnaces to melt several tons of raw
materials in one operation, and glass workers employed many
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