Francisca Pulido Valente is a Portuguese researcher how wond the “Prof. Dr Ina Isings Prize 2024” prizze by studying the chevron glass beads attribueted to Soop Glasshouse (Amsterdam). In 2023, she won the grant “Bourses d’excellence pour étudiants étrangers (PBEEE)” with the best classification. In this project, she was archaeometrically studying hundreds of glass beads, dated between the 16th and the 18th centuries, and found in Quebec in some colonial contexts. As background, Francisca is doctorated in Conservation and Restoration of Cultural Heritage, applied to glass material by NOVA School of Science and Technology and in her master dissertation she was responsible to study the largest heavy baluster crystal goblets ever found in Europe and some of the studied glass artefacts are nowadays in exhibition at Casa Dos Bicos, Lisbon, Portugal.
Representative works:
F. Pulido Valente, I. Coutinho, T. Medici, B. Gratuze, L.A. Cerqueira, R. Varela Gomes, M. Varela Gomes, A. Cadena, M. Vilarigues 2024. Provenance studies of a set of Pick-up glass fragments found in Portugal and dated to the 17th Century. Heritage MDPI 7 (9), 5048-5083. https://doi.org/10.3390/heritage7090239
F. Pulido Valente, I. Coutinho, T. Medici, B. Gratuze, L.A. Cerqueira, R. Varela Gomes, M. Varela Gomes, M. Vilarigues 2023. In the quest for historical Lisbon through 17th century Millefiori glass. Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports 52, 104228. 10.1016/j.jasrep.2023.104228
F. Pulido Valente, I. Coutinho, T. Medici, M. Vilarigues 2021. Glass colored by glass: Review of the pick-up decoration in early modern Europe. Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports 36, 102832. 10.1016/j.jasrep.2021.102832
F. Pulido Valente, I. Coutinho, T. Medici, R. Varela Gomes, M. Varela Gomes, M. Vilarigues 2019. Renaissance millefiori glass: the Portuguese case study. ICOM-CC, Glass and Ceramics Working Group Interim Meeting, Recent Advances in Glass And Ceramics Conservation 176, 217-221. ISSN-e: 9789290124702 9290124709.
F. Pulido Valente, I. Coutinho, T. Medici, C. Brain, M. Vilarigues 2026. A Group of Early English Lead Crystal Glass Goblets Found in Lisbon. Journal of glass Studies 58, 211-225. https://www.jstor.org/stable/90000976
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