Filigrana glass vase.

Filigrana glass vase.

• Image Number: K1D001083N000000000PAF
• Dynasty: Qing dynasty
• Category: Miscellaneous objects
• Function: Container
• Material: Mineral/glass/
• Description:
  The short necked, bulging and flat bottomed vials are made of transparent glass bottoms combined with tubular opal glasses of different thicknesses to form an interval arrangement, with slightly tilted decorative patterns, belonging to the type of Venetian filament glass. This technique was created in the 16th century by a glass workshop in Murano, Venice, Italy. It combines transparent glass with milky white glass stripes that are different in width, overlapping or parallel, to produce a texture of fine thread weaving and twisting. This exquisite glass vial, equipped with a wooden base, was stored in the rectangular box with hundreds of red sandalwood beams in the “Jin Yu Box” of the Heart nourishing Hall of the Qing Palace. It was recorded as a “silk wrapped glass vial”.