Glass zhadou vase with a Western lady in painted enamels, Qianlong reign (1736-1795), Qing dynasty
- Image Number: K1B017090N000000000PAB
- Dynasty: Qing dynasty
- Category: Ceramics
- Function: Container
- Material: Mineral/glass/
- Description:
The Qing imperial family’s love and demand for glass products promoted the development of glass technology. According to scholars’ research, during the 35th year of Kangxi (1696), Jean de Fontaney (1687) wrote to France to mention that under the guidance of the German missionary Bernardus Kilian Stumpf (1694), there was a glass factory in the palace. He also asked for additional glass and enamel craftsmen to come to China. In the early days, the glass factory was subordinate to the manufacturing office of Yangxin Hall. Another glass factory was also built in the Yuanmingyuan when Yongzheng was in the reign of Emperor Yongzheng. The Qianlong Dynasty followed Yuxu’s lead and continued to burn glass in the Yuanmingyuan. In the fifth year of Qianlong reign (1740), there was Gabriel Leonard de Bros, a French missionary
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