Curtis has written essays about Chinese glass for a number of academic journals, and here explores how the technology of glass making and handling, as well as glass itself, made its way to
China from Europe, particularly from Venice's celebrated glassmaking center at Murano. Her arrangement is by uses of the glass, among them mirrors and lenses creating new notions of seeing,
panes for windows and paintings, porcelain, aventurine glass, and enamel materials. She also includes chapters on diplomatic overtures from the Vatican, and the Albion, which was carrying glass
ingots or cakes of glass in various colors from the glass centers in England to China when it sank off the English coast in January 1765. Annotation 穢2009 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
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