Subject: Glass manufacture--China--History

Clear as crystal, red as flame : later Chinese glass
AuthorBrown, Claudia, 1950-Rabiner, Donald, 1949-China House Gallery
PlaceNew York
PublisherChina House Gallery
CollectionRicci Institute Library [Luce]
Edition
LanguageEnglish
TypeBook (Exhibition catalog)
Series
ShelfSeminar Room 102-103
Call NumberNK5183.A1 B76 1990
Description103 pages : color illustrations ; 30 cm
Note

Clear as crystal, red as flame : later Chinese glass / Claudia Brown and Donald Rabiner.

"China House Gallery, New York City, April 21-June 16, 1990"--Title page verso.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 33-37).

LCCN89082709
Glass exchange between Europe and China, 1550-1800 : diplomatic, mercantile and technological interactions
AuthorCurtis, Emily Byrne
PlaceBurlington, VT
PublisherAshgate
CollectionRicci Institute Library
Edition
LanguageEnglish
TypeDigital Book (PDF)
SeriesTransculturalisms, 1400-1700
ShelfDigital Archives
Call NumberTP854.C6 C87 2009d
Descriptionxiv, 156 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 24 cm.
NoteGlass exchange between Europe and China, 1550-1800 : diplomatic, mercantile and technological interactions / Emily Byrne Curtis.
Includes bibliographical references (p. [141]-150) and index.
Local access [Curtis - Glass exchange Europe-China.pdf]

Introduction -- Wonder and desire : the glass was most beautiful -- New notions of seeing : mirrors and lenses -- Panes of glass : windows and paintings -- Diplomatic overtures : the Daren (great personage) from the Vatican -- Glass : "pieces as beautiful as our aventurine" -- Cristalli : four cases of precious glass -- "White gold" : a magical substance -- Enamel materials : a technological transfer -- Carrying treasure to China : the Albion.

"In this study, Emily Byrne Curtis explores as her subject lenses, spectacles, aventurine glass, and windows found in China from the sixteenth century. She traces their technological development back to the glassworks in Murano, Venice, and explores their significance in terms of Venice's commerce with China." "Because glassware also figured among the gifts which three papal legates from the Vatican presented to the Kangxi and Yongzheng emperors, the author examines many documents from the archives in Rome and the Vatican; the study therefore touches, to an extent, on the history of the Catholic Church in China. Curtis also discusses in the volume some contemporary Chinese references and verses to European glassware, and in the case of enamel materials, she discloses the pronounced effect their use had upon the decor of Chinese porcelains."--Jacket.

LCCN2008023026
plan of the emperor's glassworks
AuthorCurtis, Emily Byrne
PlaceParis
PublisherMaisonneuve
CollectionRicci Institute Library
Edition
LanguageEnglish
TypeExtract (PDF)
Series
ShelfDigital Archives
Call NumberTP854.C6 C867 2001
Descriptiondig.pdf. [10 p. : ill., plans]
NoteA Plan of the Emperor's Glassworks / Emily Byrne Curtis. In: Arts asiatiques. Tome 56, 2001. pp. 81-90.
Abstract in English, French, Japanese.
doi:10.3406/arasi.2001.1465
Online at Persee.
Includes bibliographical refences and glossary.

From the outset of the French mission to China, scientific and cultural pursuits were envisioned and playing a large role. In 1696, a glass workshop was established as a division of the imperial ateliers. It was built on a piece of land next to the French Jesuits' church, which was situated within the walls of the Imperial City, and placed under their care. The glass workshop continued to develop and production at it reached its zenith during the Qianlong period (r. 1735-1796). However, when missionary glass artisans, such as Pierre d'Incarville, and LeĢonard de Brossard, were no longer associated with the workshop, the quality of its wares began to decline. At the turn of the century, the mission in China sank almost to extinction, and by 1827, all activity at the glassworks had ceased. In 1998, the existence of a Chinese plan for this glass workshop was revealed in an inventory of documents from the Lazarist mission to Beijing. Therefore, the topic of this paper is a study of this plan and the glassmaking activities associated with it.

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