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 Chinese-made glassware in the distinctive “eye bead” form, with inlays resembling eyes, has been excavated from Zhou (Chou) dynasty sites (1045?-256 bc). Early glass objects, often melted from imported preformed glass cakes, were small and were carved in close imitation of gemstones. The use of glass to simulate semiprecious stones for jewelry and later for snuff bottles is a recurring theme in Chinese glass. Few vessels of glass are known before the glassworks at the Beijing Imperial Palace was erected in 1680. Under the influence of the Jesuits at the Beijing court, blown glass vessels in Western European styles were produced. Glass in the Chinese idiom dominated 18th- and 19th-century production, however, featuring richly colored objects with carved and enameled decoration. The Chinese mastered the art of cameo cutting in glass.
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Glass, in use since the 1st century ad, was originally made by casting, or by blowing hollow cylinders that were slit and flattened into sheets. The crown process was a later technique, in which a gather of glass was blown and shaped into a flattened globe or crown. The pontil rod was attached to the flat side, the blowpipe removed. By spinning the reheated crown on the rod, the hole left by the blowpipe enlarged, and eventually the disk, through centrifugal force, flapped out in a large circular sheet. See also Bead Wholesaler, and pages related to Wholesale Beads. |
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