In preparing my notes I scoured the library at the Museum of American Glass Corning
Silver StainA Guide to Resources
The Corning Museum
Allan, James W. “Abul Qasi’s treatise on ceramics.” Iran Barley, Keith. “Trials and Observation in the Use of Silver Stain” Stained Glass, the Magazine of the British Society of Master Glass Painters, no. 1, 1996, pp. 11-13 Berserik, C. J. and M. A. Caen. Silver Stained Roundels and Unipartite Panels before the French Revolution. David Brown Book Co., 2007. TO BE ORDERED.
Carboni, Stefano. Glass of the Sultans. Stefano Carboni and David Whitehouse, with contributions by Robert H. Brill and William Gudenrath.. New York : Metropolitan Museum of Art and Corning : The Corning Museum New Haven : Yale University Includes a section by Robert Brill “Some thoughts on the chemistry & techniques of Islamic glass” (see pages 31, 34-35); and Bill Gudenrath, “A Survey of Islamic glass and glass decorating techniques” (see p. 52-55); silver stained / luster objects: Catalog numbers 102-109. NK5108.5.C26> Clerkin Higgins, Mary and Pilosi, Lisa; Wypyski, Mark T. “Une Peinture inhabituelle sur un rondel décoré au jaune d'argent.” Published in: Grisaille, jaune d'argent, sanguine, émail et peinture à froid. Liège: Commission royale des Monuments, Sites et Fouilles, [1996], pp. 115-116, ill. Notes: An "unusual cold paint" on a 16th-century German silver-stained roundel. English and German summaries. Duthie, Arthur. Decorative glass processes. New York : Dover Gessert, M. A. Rudimentary treatise on the art of painting on glass or glass-staining… 7th ed. London Greer, Dani. “Painting on Glass (Part 4): Silver Stain.” Common Ground: Glass, Winter 2001, pp. 8-9, ill. Halem, Henry. Glass notes. Kent , OH Hall, Sarah, and Jeffrey Kraegel. “Material Matters.” Glass Art, 14, no. 1, Nov./Dec. 1998, pp. 40-42+, ill. A consideration of color, texture, and character of different glasses -- and how each will respond to painting, etching, sandblasting, and silver staining. Heaton, Noël. “The use of silver stain.” Stained Glass Quarterly, v. 47, no. 3, Autumn 1949, pp. 77-83. Heaton, Noël. “The Origin and Use of Silver Stain.” Journal of the British Society of Master Glass-Painters, v. 10, no. 1, 1947-1948, pp. 9-16, ill. Hermann, Felix. Painting on glass and porcelain and enamel painting. London < Stacks/Cage NK5410.H55 1897>Husband, Timothy, et al. The luminous image : painted glass roundels in the Lowlands , 1480-1560 / by Timothy B. Husband ; with an introductory essay by Ilja M. Veldman; and contributions by Ellen Konowitz and Zsuzsanna van Ruyven-Zeman. New York : Metropolitan Museum Includes silver-stained roundels. NK5353 .H96> Husband, Timothy B. “'Ick Sorgheloose...': A Silver-Stained Roundel in the Cloisters.” Metropolitan Museum A "fickle fortune" scene of about 1520. Lafond, Jean. “Essai historique sur le jaune d’argent.” Pratique de la peinture sur verre… Rouen Lillich, Meredith P. Studies in medieval stained glass and monasticism. London Part II. European stained glass around 1300: the introduction of silver stain Maddy, Dorothy L. “Silver Staining.” Stained Glass, v. 79, no. 3, Fall 1984, pp. 258-262 Maddy, Dorothy L. “Using Silver Stain Creates a Golden Glow.” Glass Art Magazine, v. 1, no. 8, June 1986, pp. 12-13+ Whitehouse, David, Pilosi, Lisa., Wypyski, Mark T. “Byzantine Silver Stain.” Journal of Glass Studies, v. 42, 2000, pp. 85-96, ill. Whitehouse, David, and Piilosi, Lisa. “ Byzantine Silver Stain: Another Example?” Journal of Glass Studies, v. 43, 2001, pp. 180-181, ill. Bowl may provide "additional proof that glassworkers in the Byzantine Empire were familiar with silver stain in or about the 10th century." Weyl, Woldemar A. Coloured glasses. Sheffield : Society of Glass Technology, 1951; reprinted 1992, pp. 409-419. 