Author | Brown, Claudia, 1950-Rabiner, Donald, 1949-China House Gallery |
Place | New York |
Publisher | China House Gallery |
Collection | Ricci Institute Library [Luce] |
Edition | |
Language | English |
Type | Book (Exhibition catalog) |
Series | |
Shelf | Seminar Room 102-103 |
Call Number | NK5183.A1 B76 1990 |
Description | 103 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). |
LCCN | 89082709 |
Author | Curtis, Emily Byrne |
Place | Burlington, VT |
Publisher | Ashgate |
Collection | Ricci Institute Library |
Edition | |
Language | English |
Type | Digital Book (PDF) |
Series | Transculturalisms, 1400-1700 |
Shelf | Digital Archives |
Call Number | TP854.C6 C87 2009d |
Description | xiv, 156 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 24 cm. |
Note | Glass 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. |
LCCN | 2008023026 |
Author | Curtis, Emily Byrne |
Place | Paris |
Publisher | Maisonneuve |
Collection | Ricci Institute Library |
Edition | |
Language | English |
Type | Extract (PDF) |
Series | |
Shelf | Digital Archives |
Call Number | TP854.C6 C867 2001 |
Description | dig.pdf. [10 p. : ill., plans] |
Note | A 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 LeĢonard 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. Local access dig.pdf. [Curtis-Glassworks.pdf] |