Period:Qing dynasty Production date:1723-1750
Materials:glass
Technique:
Description:
Bowl. Made of glass imitating realgar.
IMG
![图片[1]-bowl BM-SLMisc.1695-China Archive](https://chinaarchive.net/Qin dynasty/43/mid_01176110_001.jpg)
![图片[2]-bowl BM-SLMisc.1695-China Archive](https://chinaarchive.net/Qin dynasty/43/mid_RRC3778_3780.jpg)
Comments:Sir Hans Sloane’s ‘Miscellanea’ catalogue is a bound volume in Central Archives containing seven separate catalogues: ‘Miscellanies’, ‘Antiquities’, ‘Seals’, ‘Pictures’, ‘Mathematical Instruments’, ‘Agate Handles’ and ‘Agate Cups, Bottles, Spoons’. Each contains numbered entries that list and describe objects collected by Sloane between the 1680s and 1750s. Each catalogue begins with object number one. Text from Sloane Miscellanea catalogue: Miscellanea Miscellanies 1695 “1695. A China bason yellow & red made of flints carried from England.” In Sloane’s catalogue of Miscellanies, he recorded as number1694: ‘A box for tea made of a spotted wood from the Molucco Islands made in China & fill’d wt. three tutenage canisters full of 1. Ling-ci-sing. a stomachic. 2. Luvylue a cordiall. 3. ball tea a stomachic. From Mr. Bell.1695. A China bason yellow & red made of flints carried from England.1696. Two jarrs of the same. Id. A kind of glasse semidiaphonous.1697. Four chocolate cups of the same. One of w ch : was stole1698. Four China basons of a dark brown colour waved wt. White lines. From the same.1701. A small China pencill for writing. from Mr. Bell.’It seems likely that the objects imitating realgar, but made from English flints, were also from Mr Bell, a surgeon in Canton 1730-31
Materials:glass
Technique:
Description:
Bowl. Made of glass imitating realgar.
IMG
Comments:Sir Hans Sloane’s ‘Miscellanea’ catalogue is a bound volume in Central Archives containing seven separate catalogues: ‘Miscellanies’, ‘Antiquities’, ‘Seals’, ‘Pictures’, ‘Mathematical Instruments’, ‘Agate Handles’ and ‘Agate Cups, Bottles, Spoons’. Each contains numbered entries that list and describe objects collected by Sloane between the 1680s and 1750s. Each catalogue begins with object number one. Text from Sloane Miscellanea catalogue: Miscellanea Miscellanies 1695 “1695. A China bason yellow & red made of flints carried from England.” In Sloane’s catalogue of Miscellanies, he recorded as number1694: ‘A box for tea made of a spotted wood from the Molucco Islands made in China & fill’d wt. three tutenage canisters full of 1. Ling-ci-sing. a stomachic. 2. Luvylue a cordiall. 3. ball tea a stomachic. From Mr. Bell.1695. A China bason yellow & red made of flints carried from England.1696. Two jarrs of the same. Id. A kind of glasse semidiaphonous.1697. Four chocolate cups of the same. One of w ch : was stole1698. Four China basons of a dark brown colour waved wt. White lines. From the same.1701. A small China pencill for writing. from Mr. Bell.’It seems likely that the objects imitating realgar, but made from English flints, were also from Mr Bell, a surgeon in Canton 1730-31
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