Glass Exchange between Europe and China, 1550–1800
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European glassware influence Qing dynasty
historical optics
household
imperial
Jesuit missions China
material culture studies
Murano glassmaking
Paolo Zecchin
Sino-European trade
venetian
wares
workshop
yuan
yuanming
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- ISBN 9781138254084
- Weight: 320g
- Dimensions: 156 x 234mm
- Publication Date: 31 Mar 2017
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Paperback
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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.
Emily Byrne Curtis is an independent scholar and author, whose essays on Chinese glass have appeared in the Palace Museum Journal, Beijing; Arts Asiatiques, Paris; Journal of Glass Studies, Corning, NY; and Transactions of the Oriental Ceramic Society, London. She is the author of Pure Brightness Shines Everywhere: The Glass of China (Ashgate, 2004).
