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Glass Exchange between Europe and China, 1550-1800 - Diplomatic, Mercantile and Technological Interactions (Paperback)
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Glass Exchange between Europe and China, 1550-1800 - Diplomatic, Mercantile and Technological Interactions (Paperback)
Series: Transculturalisms, 1400-1700
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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.
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