Glass Ruby Red
Tuesday, June 15th, 2010
Chinese snuff boxes – Sensations in Glass!
The first bottles, we decided to buy this are not carved in stone were made of glass. A wide range of glass bottles is to be found in all shapes and colors and a variety of manufacturing techniques.
Much more research is needed to date these bottles, but it is now generally accepted that glass bottles and metal were the first materials to be used. The problem is that the glass has been used throughout the period up to snuff straight today.
The Chinese had little use for the glass before the 17th century mainly because of their expertise in fine porcelain. They had no glass windows, promoting translucent paper. We do not know if the glass had been used centuries earlier in China, but it was certainly presented to them by Europeans in time for snuff bottles.
Cameo Glass
They considered it as a precious and has excelled in producing beautiful works of art. Sometimes they treated like a carved stone and a bottle solid piece, if they blew the glass into molds. Create unusual number of bottles ranging from transparent to white as the background for inlay work color. They were also able to control bubbles and the addition of white spots in the glass, the colors as these names suggest are apt been created: – Sodden Snow, camphor and snowflakes.
These bottles would then immersed in the molten glass in bright colors that would later be carved away to leave a monochrome style design. Some have been plunged more than once to provide more than one color layer. Another technique is applied to different areas of the bottle of liquid color blobs of glass. When they were carved the bottle can have up to a maximum eight different colors cameo carved without increasing the number of layers.
Quality Counts
To a connoisseur, the number of colors or layers is not so important, that it was not a difficult process and much more flexible material than stone carving. What must be evaluated is the quality of the sculpture and the overall design. Very often beautifully carved and well-designed color overlay will be much more simple a multicolored, but poorly finished the bottle.
To evaluate these bottles color is a consideration, but attention is also given with cameo stone carving, the quality of the sculpture and especially the way the bottom is finished near the edge of the overlay. I chose a ruby red Single overlay as a good example of photographing. It shows a spiral Chih lung or dragon on both sides also have a mythological animal mask and costume ring handles on each shoulder from 1750 to 1860. The dragon is a sign used birth like our zodiac signs. (See the photo by clicking on the link at the end of this article).
There is a group of very special, very finely worked bottles collection called "Seal School ', because they always include a seal design. They were made later and date from the second half of the 19th century.
Even if they were performed in the same manner, layering is much more delicately carved and often even the thickness of the overlay is controlled to create shade. They normally used opaque white bottles as background, but some also worked on other opaque colors. Until Now I've never seen the clear profile or snowflake. * The photograph shows a cylinder seal of the School of Fine representing a pair of cats play with the insects hovering among the flowers. On either side there is a bowl of fruit on a table and on the reverse is another scene of a drunk poet asleep in a garden. (* See the photo by clicking on the link at the end of this article).
Glass sheets
Apart from these types of overlay there are many interesting mottled, swirling, colorful drawings, and colored bottles, both carved and uncarved.
Many of them were quite complex in how they were made: some were blown into molds and then hand finished, others involved blowing a clear glass into a mold and then another layer was blown inside the first bottle. This layer was a colorful thin, sandwiched by yet a third layer clear that was also blown in. When you look down the neck of one these bottles you can clearly see these three layers.
A variety of colors have been used successfully, with the gold in the creation bottles snuff. There is no doubt that their advanced knowledge acquired porcelain firing, and how to react with metal oxides, was put to good use in the glass.
It was also suggested that besides the mixture of metals, even small particles of precious stones such as sapphires, emeralds and rubies were added to the molten glass.
Particular attention was paid to the sensation of finished material, which was directed by the type of polishing and even the weight was controlled by the addition of lead. With transparent bottles the interior could be controlled and made sound crazy as these names suggest – cracked ice, fishing net or Sea Spray.
Most of the very fine snuff boxes were made in the imperial workshop and other small glass works around Beijing.
Imitation Stone
With such expertise the Chinese were able to do imitations of other materials astonishing. There are many bottles that resemble and feel like Jade, turquoise, agate and other stones. It has been seen in the past that the Chinese have done in the false with the intent to deceive. I sure it was not the case because it was too easy to find by a careful inspection. Under magnification of holes on the surface could not be polite and tiny bubbles would be seen to prove that it must be glass. Finally, unlike the glass stone can be quite easily scratched by steel.
The Chinese have to make convincing imitations of valuable minerals as a demonstration of their ability. Another mineral has been expertly Realgar copied with his bright red and yellow colors swirling, impossible to use because of high arsenic content, so that these copies would caused much of the plot.
Imperial Yellow
I mentioned a wide range of colors has been used for glass bottles. Colors such as blue sapphires and rubies seem to have been the most popular of the early ones. The Emperor Chien-Lung had a color Favorite decreed that could be used by the imperial family and was an opaque shade of yellow that is now called "Imperial yellow.
Not all bottles of that color really are Imperial as after his death, this color is available for all. A bottle of real "imperial Yellow must be one of its period and can not be confirmed by the quality of the bottle and sculpture. The bottle "Imperial yellow" picture is well carved with an archaic conception of the two sides and the period of 1736-1795. (See the photo by clicking on the link at the end of this article).
Painted on the Inside
There is another area of glass bottles that really amazes everyone, these bottles is the "Inside painted. I few examples in the collection, as I usually do not favor them as I think they have never been employed. Once that snuff was placed in them the image would not show up well, and spoon soon ruin the paint.
I also to explain that they do not stop inside the paint for glass, but applied the same techniques for Crystal and chalcedony. The vast majority are, however, especially glass bottles designed for a uniform shape.
What is remarkable is that through such small hole in the neck, they could paint the scenery inside, animals, calligraphy and even portraits. For the image to see through the window painting should be done in reverse, full details such as eyelashes for example, had to be painted first! All bottles are signed by the artist and many, some are very interesting too, are still produced today.
For our own collection I felt that we should have one or two examples and I had the chance to buy the earliest known, dated and signed within bottle painted by Kan-Huan Wen. It is one of the first artist well known and highly respected. He painted the interior of a rock crystal bottle, Lions Buddhist scene with a poem on the reverse. This bottle is signed and dated 1822. (See the photo by clicking on the link at the end of this article).
Later we acquired another example of rock crystal, and these two are the only bottles painted inside that we have. I think it is very Remarkably, the interior space is so limited, it is difficult to imagine how such a beautiful painting was done on a surface without completely destroying the other.
It was originally a bottle rather badly done twice. I do not know if half damage that was removed was done before it was painted, but I think it would have been. It was a very bad bottle dug of little value, has been painted before.
In my opinion, is the fact that he has been so badly dug that makes the painting even more amazing! Take a look at the picture. A scene continues to fish among the water plants was painted in red, gold, pink, white, green and gray, dated 1896 and signed Chan Chu-Yuan. This crystal is a flaw in the natural stone that adds to the appeal of water under the image. (See the photo by clicking on the link at the end of this article).
Most glass bottles made expressly to paint the interior are much more important than a crystal. Some of the paintings produced are however difficult to believe possible. There are even portraits that are so well done they just look as well as photographs in black and white!
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