434 - Hartmann “Glasmarken-Lexikon” and Zühlsdorff “Keramik-Marken Lexikon”, Arnoldsche

Hartmann “Glasmarken-Lexikon” and Zühlsdorff “Keramik-Marken Lexikon”, Arnoldsche Two reference works published by Arnoldsche Art Publishers, Stuttgart. 1) Carolus Hartmann, “Glasmarken-Lexikon 1600-1945. Signaturen, Fabrik- und Handelsmarken. Europa und Nordamerika”, 1997, cloth with dust jacket, in a blue printed slipcase, ISBN 3-925369-37-6. 2) Dieter Zühlsdorff, “Keramik-Marken Lexikon. Porzellan und Keramik Report 1885-1935. Europa (Festland)”, 2nd edition 1994, cloth with dust jacket, in a plain cardboard slipcase, ISBN 3-925369-40-6. Good condition, slight traces of use and age. Both volumes are basic equipment for identifying marks in the art trade. The Hartmann records more than eleven thousand signatures and illustrations of marks of European and North American glassworks on around one thousand pages; the preface is printed in English, French and Japanese as well as German. The Zühlsdorff covers, on 756 pages, the marks, monograms and signets of European porcelain and ceramics production from 1885 to 1935 and includes company documentation and artist biographies; Great Britain is expressly not covered, as the addition Europa (Festland), continental Europe, indicates.