Our Forefathers in Glass

JSGT 1955 V39 T404-T412

The first names of persons we meet in the long story of glass are not of those who made it, but of the exalted beings, the ruling monarchs, to whom the efforts of all craftsmen were dedicated. Several of the reigning monarchs of Egypt of the period between 1580 and 1320 B.C. have their names permanently worked into the fabric of glass articles, either by threads of coloured glass or by engraving. I like to think that one of these, Akhenaton, who reigned from 1375 to 1358 B.C., did something to inspire the glass-makers as well as other craftsmen of his day, to reach new, higher levels of attainmen

W. E. S. Turner