Complete Collection of Chinese Gold, Silver, Glass and Enamelware 4 Glassware (1)

Author: Yang Boba
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Features: The "National Gold, Silver, Glass, and Enamel" series is divided into three volumes of gold and silver wares, one volume of glass wares, and two volumes of enamel wares, totaling six books. The selected artifacts are all masterpieces from various eras. In addition to the artistic value of the artifacts themselves, it also takes into account their historical, artistic, and archaeological value. Each volume is divided into three parts: one for specialized essays, two for color illustrations, and three for color illustration descriptions. It includes 322 sets of glass artifacts from the Western Zhou to the Qing Dynasty (11th century BC to 1911 AD). Glass was anciently known as "liuli," "luli," "liuli," "poli," or "liaojqi." In China's 3,000-year glass history, the primary pursuit and aesthetic standard was to create "medicinal jade" with a warm, smooth, and beautiful texture, similar to jade. This focus on imitating jade in ancient glass has throughout the history of Chinese glass, which is also reflected in the formula, craftsmanship, and aesthetic characteristics of Chinese glass. It must reach the level of "true jade," while the strength, toughness, and color of its texture are irrelevant—as long as it resembles jade, the goal is achieved. As for the import of dragonfly-eye glass beads from the West, Roman glass, Yuezhi glass, Persian glass, Islamic glass, and European glass, their influence on the development of ancient glass cannot be ignored.