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Glass Restoration

Much more research is needed to date these bottles, but it is generally agreed that now glass metal, bottles were the first materials used. The problem is that the glass has been used throughout the vials tobacco, to this day.

The Chinese had little use for the glass until the 17th century, mainly because of their high qualifications exquisite porcelain. They had no glass windows, helping to semi-transparent paper. We are not sure that the glass has been used for centuries in China, but this, of course, they met the Europeans in time for snuff bottles.

They saw it as a precious material and has managed to produce fine works of art. Sometimes, they treated her like a stone bottles and carved from a single piece, or they blew up the renewal of glass in molds. Creating many unusual bottles of tobacco from a translucent white color as the background for the overlay work. They also been able to control bubbles and the addition of white spots in the glass, the colors, such as the names of the APT was created to provide: – Snow soaked, camphor, and snowflakes.

These bottles are then immersed in molten glass colored light, which would later be burned far as the design style Cameo. Some of them spend more than once to provide more than one layer of color. Another method is to apply to different areas of bottles of drops of molten colored glass. When they were carved snuff bottle can have up to a maximum of eight colors different carved cameo without increasing the number of layers.

To connoisseurs, the number of colors or layers is not very important because this was not a complicated process, and a much softer material than to carve the stone. What is really necessary to appreciate this quality sculpture and the overall design. It is often surprisingly well carved overlay glass scratch a color will cost much more than multi-color, but ill finish the bottle.

To assess the bottles regardless of color tobacco, but a great Attention is paid to how the stone carvings Cameo, the quality of the sculpture and especially with the way von finished closer to the edge of the overlay. I chose a ruby overlay as a good example for the photo. It shows lung Guy Chi or dragon on both sides as a mask with mythological animals and Models of ring handles on each shoulder 1750-1860. The birth of dragon use the mark, but as our zodiac signs. (See the photo by clicking on the link at the end of this article).

Although this has been done in the same manner, the imposition of much more delicately carved and often same thickness of the overlay is controlled to create shading. They are commonly used opaque white bottle in the background, but some they also worked on other opaque colors. So far, I've never seen on a clear and original snowflake. The picture shows a bottle joint school with a pair of cats playing with a static insects among the flowers. On either side there is a bowl of fruit on the table, and on the back of a another scene a drunken poet sleeps in the garden. (See the photo by clicking on the link at the end of this article).

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