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Antique Lamps - Peking Glass

In our modern world every day, a glass is part of life, but that was not always so.

The elegant and ethereal Medium known as "glass" is simple and mainly of sand, and / or silica and a flux, sodium or potassium. These elements coalesce when melted at very high temperatures, making the product more easily recognized than glass.

Glass is an old invention, having produced over the past 5000 years and particularly since the development of techniques in the 18th Century. The first glassblowers were in ancient Egypt and Mesopotamia 5000 years ago up with examples of this early glass survives today found. At this time it was seen as a very exotic product and study has shown that the simple techniques used as a secret ballot by the ancient craftsmen were.

The first glass products were very rough bottles and bottles, manufactured by molding the basic shape out of clay. The modeled shape by inserting a short Metal rod into one end with the form dipped in the molten glass, therefore, decided to form the "core" of the piston shape. Long threads of molten glass as "sticks" is known, were then wound around this basic form until the bottle or the bottle was full.

Before his case, held the monopoly for Egypt Glassmaking in the entire known world. When the Romans in Egypt, that they quickly adopted the manufacture of glass discovers secrets. It was, in fact, the Romans, the continue the development of glass production with the introduction of glass blowing to the 1st Century BC. It was from this novel, the development of glassmaking in the manufacture Glass led by the Western world.

In the meantime, the Chinese had discovered the glass was in ancient China, with special features like the ability to attributed to keep out evil spirits. It was also a healing effect that, combined with precious stones and crystals, but before 17 Century, the Chinese found little use for this product. It should be recalled that until 19 Century architecture around the world very little glass used in windows, with the Chinese favoring sheet of transparent paper. Even glass has been developed and refined for the purpose of storage, because of China's highly necessary and manufacture of china.

While China had been producing glass since about 700 BC with various small glass factories operating throughout the country, most of these workshops with their small contingent outputs, short-lived. It is also clear that glass not vote until the end of imperial patronage of the 17th Century by the Emperor Kang Xi (1662-1722) establishing the first state as a glass factory imperial workshop in 1696th The workshop was in the palace walls of the Forbidden City and was with the best craftsmen to be found in occupied China.

The beautiful Chinese Glass, so well known in the West as "Peking glass" was, in fact, the Chinese from the 17th Century German Jesuit missionary introduced. The missionary in charge of the facility the imperial workshop and brought many Western techniques of glass and enamel work on the Chinese court. As a result, Peking glass was rightly described as a "stepchild" in the large family of Chinese arts and crafts.

Interestingly, it was the introduction of snuff, or finely powdered tobacco, to the establishment of LED Imperial workshop. As the first Europeans came to China, they not only discover new and exciting things, but the Chinese who discovered nothing of the Western world, new ideas China and snuff was one of them!

Due to the rapidly developing habit of snuff at the imperial court and quickly gaining popularity in the High Society, glass snuff bottles were produced. The Imperial Workshop began production of small bottles specifically for the purpose of snuff or powdered tobacco for use by the imperial family, or as a gift to the civil and military ministers of the imperial court and foreign diplomats.

         

                                  

A Chinese "Peking glass table lamp, the lamp of the typical thick-walled, heavy duty, weighing just over 4 lb / 1.8. The mustard yellow lamp stands on a tailor-made to sit in gilded wood base and gold-plated bronze ring, the lamp of gilded bronze clasp. Circa 1900. Overall height (including Shade) 22 "/ 56cm

A Chinese "Peking glass" table lamp.The glass of a rich cobalt blue and the typical Beijing glass type, thick walls and a heavy base kg with a weight of 4.2 kilograms / 2.

The determination of the light bulb to create an effective lighting of the cobalt-blue Glass, (more widely known in the West as Bristol blue). The lamp is equipped with a turned-on, gilded bronze cap and standing on a turned maple base with the Dutch Gilding. Circa 1900 burnished overall height (including shade) 20 "/ 50cm

These early productions were monochrome or different colors in Imperial egg yolks, ruby red and opaline green. They were of simple shape, or ,'''' scholarly tastes ranging from plain highly decorative Pieces with stained glass overlay, glass, either carved or faceted.

Glass overlay was developed later. This included the immersion of a glass element in a vat of molten glass of a contrasting color. The form was cooled, a 3-day period, after which it decoratively carved reveals the original colored glass layer. Glass Carving is a lengthy and arduous process, both time-consuming and labor intensive. The final shaping and polishing done by hand in traditional jade-cutting process the methodical grinding and polishing.  

The Beijing-glass lamp illustrated is a single color sample and was produced by repeated Dipping the glass in the form of a tub of molten glass, was produced until the desired shape, and finally finished and polished.

Today, Beijing is glass in many forms found both functional and purely decorative.

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About the Author

Maurice Robertson, principal of The Antique and Vintage Table Lamp Co , has had a lifetime’s association with antique porcelain and pottery,with his commercial experience spaning a period of 40 years,including as a valuer to the Australian Government’s Incentive to the Arts Scheme. His long experience with antique ceramics and glass also includes dealing with leading museums and numerous international private collections. He has extended his ceramics expertise into the quality table lamps seen on the company’s site, he is well known to local and international interior designers who have included many of his table lamps in their projects and has also supplied items of national interest to the official Sydney residence of the Australian Prime Minister.

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