Period:Qing dynasty Production date:1723-1750
Materials:glass
Technique:blown
Description:
Four yellow and red glass cups made in imitation of realgar.
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![图片[1]-cup BM-SLMisc.1697.a-d-China Archive](https://chinaarchive.net/Qin dynasty/43/mid_00218208_001.jpg)
![图片[2]-cup BM-SLMisc.1697.a-d-China Archive](https://chinaarchive.net/Qin dynasty/43/mid_RRC3778_3780.jpg)
Comments:In Sloane’s catalogue of Miscellanies, he recorded as number 1694: ‘A box for tea made of a spotted wood from the Molucco Islands made in China & fill’d wt. three tutenagecanisters 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, including 1698, these four basins, were also from Mr Bell, a surgeon in Canton 1730-31
Materials:glass
Technique:blown
Description:
Four yellow and red glass cups made in imitation of realgar.
IMG
Comments:In Sloane’s catalogue of Miscellanies, he recorded as number 1694: ‘A box for tea made of a spotted wood from the Molucco Islands made in China & fill’d wt. three tutenagecanisters 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, including 1698, these four basins, were also from Mr Bell, a surgeon in Canton 1730-31
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