Sensational Antique

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Chinese snuff boxes – Sensations in Glass!

The first decided to buy bottles that are not etched in stone glass. A wide range of glass bottles found in all shapes and colors and a variety of manufacturing techniques.

Much more research is necessary to date these bottles, but it is 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 at the height bottle today.

The Chinese had little use the glass before the 17th century, mainly due to their highly refined porcelain skills. They had no glass windows, which promotes translucent paper. We do not know if the glass has been used centuries before in China, but certainly has been introduced in Europe in time for the bottles snuff.

Cameo Glass

They see it as a valuable and important material in producing works of art. Sometimes they treated him like a stone-and bottle in one piece, otherwise, blowing glass in the molds. The creation of many unusual bottles, to be clear to white as the background for the work of overlapping colors. They were also able to control bubbles and the addition of white spots on glass, colors as these names suggest apt have been created: – Snow soaked, camphor, and snowflakes.

These bottles are then immersed molten glass in bright later be carved away to leave a style cameo. Some plunged more than once to provide more than one color coat. Another technique is applied to different areas of bottles of colored glass melted spots. When they were carved from the bottle can up to eight different colors cameo cut without increasing the number of layers.

Quality Counts

A connoisseur, the number colors or layers is not so important, because it was not a difficult process and a material much softer than the stone carving. This should be considered is the quality of the size and overall design. Very often, well designed and beautifully carved color overlay is much more than a simple colored bottle gone bad.

To evaluate these bottles color is a factor, but to provide attention that with cameo carved in stone, the quality of the sculpture and especially the way the fund is far from over the edge of the template. I chose a superimposed single ruby red as a good example to shoot. It shows a "spiral of lung Chih" or dragon on both sides; mythological animal mask Ring also and mock handles on each shoulder from 1750 to 1860. The dragon is a sign used in place of our birth signs of the zodiac. (See photo by clicking on the link bottom of this article.)

There is a group of very special, very finely worked bottles known as the superposition "Seal of the school, as they have always accompanied by a stamp design. They were later made and the date of the second half of the 19th century.

Well that have been made in the same way, the model is much more finely carved and often the coating thickness is controlled to create shade. Usually used on white opaque bottles, but others have also worked in other solid colors. Until Now I have never seen in the light backgrounds or snowflake. * The picture shows a bottle or seal of studies showing a pair of cats who play with insects flitting among the flowers. Each side is a bowl of fruit on a table and on the reverse is another scene a drunken poet who sleeps in a garden. (* See photo clicking on the link below this article.)

The layers of glass

Apart from these types of overlap are many speckles interesting designs , and the swirling colors, and plain bottles, both uncut and cut.

Many of them were very complex in how they were made: some were destroyed in the mold, then hand finished, those involved a clear glass blowing in a mold, then another layer was blown inside the first bottle. This layer was a thin colored, however, taken sandwiched by a third clear layer was also blown in. When you look at the neck of one of these bottles can clearly see these three layers.

A variety of colors have been used successfully, with the gold in the creation snuff. There is no doubt that their knowledge of advanced Acquired firing ceramics, and how they react metal oxides, has been subjected to good use glass.

It has been suggested that, besides the mixture of metals, even small particles of precious stones such as sapphires, emeralds and rubies were added to glass melted.

Particular attention was paid to the finished printed product, which was directed by the same type of polished weight was controlled by the addition of lead. Transparent bottles inside could be controlled, and presented crazy as the name suggests – the crushed ice, fishing net or Sea Spray.

Most of snuff bottles were very fine made in the imperial workshop and other small works of glass everywhere in Beijing.

Imitation Stone

With this knowledge, the Chinese have been doing imitations of other materials astonishing. There are many bottles that look and feel jade, turquoise, agate and other stones. There was a point of view in the past that the Chinese made the counterfeit, with intent to deceive. I'm sure it was not the case because was too easy to find by careful inspection. Under magnification of small holes in the surface can not be polished and small bubbles to demonstrate that must be a glass. Finally, unlike glass stones can be very easily scratched by steel.

The Chinese were convincing imitations Mineral valuable as a demonstration of his ability. A copy of other minerals Realgar skillfully with their swirls of vivid red and yellow, not use with high arsenic content, so that these copies have been caused much of the plot.

Imperial Yellow

I mentioned a wide range was used for bottles of colored glass. Colors like blue sapphire and ruby red seem to have been the most People of the oldest. However, the Chien-lung emperor had a favorite color that the decree could be used by the imperial family and was a bit dull yellow is now known as "Imperial yellow".

Not all bottles of that color are truly imperial after his death, This color is available for everyone. A bottle of truth "Imperial yellow" must be a part of his time and can not be confirmed by the quality of the bottle and the height. The bottle "Imperial yellow in the image is carved with an archaic both sides and the period of 1736-1795. (See the photo by clicking on the link at the end of this article.)

Interior paints

There is another area of glass bottles that really amazes all the world, these bottles is the inside painted. I have a few examples of the collection, it is usually not if you Please give as much in my opinion, have never been employed. When snuff was placed in them the image is not well presented, and the spoon from damaging the paint.

I will say that it is not limited to inside the paint glass, but they have applied the same techniques for glass and Chalcedon. The vast majority, however, glass bottles are specially designed a uniformly.

What is remarkable is that a small hole in the neck that could paint the interior portraits landscapes, animals, calligraphy even. To display the image through the window painting has been canceled, all those little details such as tabs, for example, had be painted first! All these bottles are signed by the artist and many, some very attractive too, are still ongoing today.

For our own collection I felt that we should have one or two instances and I had the chance to buy the oldest known, dated and signed inside painted bottles Kan-Huan Wen. It is one of the first artist well known and highly respected. He painted the inside of a bottle rock crystal, a scene of Buddhist Lions with a poem on the back. This bottle is signed and dated 1822. (See the photo by clicking on the link at the bottom of this article.)

More later acquired another example of rock crystal, and these two are the bottles that we have painted inside. I think it's just remarkable, since space is so limited, it is difficult to imagine how a beautiful painting was done on a surface without completely destroying the other.

At first bottle was a very double error. I do not know if the media were removed damage has been done before it was painted, but I think it would have been. This was a very bad hole bottle of little value before it been painted.

In my opinion, is the fact that it was so bad hole that makes the painting even more amazing! See table. A scene continues of fish between aquatic plants is painted in red, gold, pink, white, green and gray, dated 1896 and signed Chan Chu-Yuan. This glass has a natural defect stone adds the call of the water in this picture. (See the photo by clicking on the link at the bottom of this article.)

Most bottles Crystal deliberately made to paint the interior are much more important than this glass. Some tables are made, however, difficult to believe possible. There are even portraits are so well done that are just as well in black and white photo!

About the Author

John N. Cohen A past director of Jacey Cinemas Ltd. Later the proprietor of a design & photographic studio, now a director of Jacey Homes Ltd., a property development company. Interests and Hobbies: A top international award winning photographer who also became a well known Asian antiques collector and an enthusiast of Jensen British classic cars. Other interests are skiing and Salsa dancing.

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The author has been a very keen collector for many years in helping to create ‘The Cohen collection’.

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