Thirty-Eyed Glass Beads Warring States
Hundreds of ancient glassware are collected to recreate the glass world of 3,000 years ago
"Most of the good things are not firm, and the clouds are easy to scatter and the glass is brittle." ——Bai Juyi, "Jian Jian Yin"
Warring States Glass Dragonfly Eyes
The world is impermanent, the pleasure is short-lived, and the beautiful things can not last long, and the great poet Bai Juyi used "caiyun" and "liuli" as an analogy in order to illustrate this truth. At that time, the so-called "glass" referred to as a fire-fired, glassy transparent object. Glass is everywhere today, but for a long time in ancient times, it was a rare luxury.
Dragonfly eye pattern glass beads Warring States
Chinese the first class of porcelain, although glass products have been involved as early as the Western Zhou Dynasty, but it has not been a strong point. Therefore, more exquisite glass products have come through thousands of miles through the Silk Road, which is more precious. It is precisely this kind of encounter that makes Bai Xiangshan compare it with the "color cloud" of the same nature. This time, at the Art Museum of Tsinghua University, when we see hundreds of glass products from the ancient world, we may be able to appreciate the beauty behind the loneliness of Bai's poems.
Warring States Glass Pearl Jiangling Mashan Brick and Tile Factory M2 was unearthed
In the middle and late Warring States period, domestic glass products showed a blowout trend, most of them are lead barium glass with lead oxide and barium oxide as flux. In the extant literature, the earliest record of glass also appears in the Shangshu, which was written in the Warring States period. Yu Gong", which mentions "Miao Lin", which resembles a beautiful jade object. After the Western Han Dynasty, the word "Miao Lin" was transliterated as "Liuli". Wang Chong of the Eastern Han Dynasty mentioned in the "On Balance" that "the Daoist people eliminated the five stones and made the jade of the five colors", which is the earliest record of the glass craft in the literature.
Warring States Glass Pipe Gangneung Yutai Dog Badger Mountain was unearthed
At the turn of the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States, the two pieces of light blue translucent glass on the sword of the Yue King's Gou Jian were unearthed to really play a historical role. After scientific testing and analysis, the main component of the glass on the Yue Wang Gou Jian sword is potassium calcium silicate, and the glass of this chemical composition is not found in ancient Egypt and ancient Babylon, so it is most likely to be domestically manufactured.
The king of Yue hooked the blue glass on the sword
Western Han Dynasty Blue String Pattern Glass In 1991, Tomb No. 12 of Guigang Shendingling (Kong Shengling) was excavated
Glass pot Northern Wei
Concentric cylinder 3rd century AD Rome Eastern Mediterranean region
Milled jewelry cup Iran, Islamic period, 6th-7th century AD
Carved glass long-necked bottle, Liao Dynasty, 907-1125, excavated from the tomb of Princess Chen Guo of Naiman Banner, Tongliao City, Inner Mongolia, collected by the Institute of Cultural Relics and Archaeology of Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region
3rd-4th century AD Grape-shaped bottles Rome Mediterranean region
12th-13th century Salvaging bottle of water isLamic Syria
Around the 12th century carved decorative hexagonal pots in Islam and Iran
Petal-patterned decorative bowl, Eastern Mediterranean Region - West Asia, Achaemenid period, 5th-4th centuries BC
Eye pattern glass bead string, late Spring and Autumn Period, 6-5 centuries BC, excavated from the tomb of Zhao Qing in Jinsheng Village, Taiyuan City, Shanxi Province, and collected by the Shanxi Museum
Eye-grained glass beads, Warring States, 475-221 BC, excavated in 1951 in Guwei Village, Hui County, Henan Province, National Museum of China
Eye-patterned glass beads, Warring States, 475-221 BC, Tomb M2 of The Mashan Brick and Tile Factory in Jiangling, Jingzhou, Hubei Province, excavated, collected by the Jingzhou Museum
Mosaic Glass Beads, Egypt, Ptolemaic Dynasty - Early Roman Empire, 1st CENTURY BC - 1st century AD
Mosaic Face Pattern Glass Bead Necklace, Egypt, Ptolemaic Dynasty - Early Roman Empire, 1st century BC - 1st century AD
Ring, Eastern Mediterranean, Ptolemaic – Roman Empire, 1st century BC - 1st century AD
Cameo Glass Ornament, Eastern Mediterranean, Ptolemaic – Early Roman Empire, 2nd century AD
Mosaic ornaments, Mediterranean region, Roman Empire, 2nd-3rd century AD
Ribbed Decorative Bowl, Eastern Mediterranean Region, Hellenistic Period - Early Roman Empire, 1st Century BC - 1st Century AD
Amphora, Black Sea coast, early Roman Empire, 1st century AD
Milled Decorative Cup, Eastern Mediterranean, Early Roman Empire, 1st-2nd centuries AD
Gold Glass Bottle, Italy, Early Roman Empire, 1st century BC - 1st century AD
Amphora, Eastern Mediterranean, Roman Empire, 1st century AD
Polyphon, Eastern Mediterranean, Roman Empire, 1st-2nd centuries AD
Container with lid, Eastern Mediterranean, Roman Empire, 1st-2nd centuries AD
Long-necked bottle, Eastern Mediterranean, Roman Empire, 3rd-4th centuries AD
Double-faced guipure bottle, Eastern Mediterranean, Roman Empire, 3rd-4th century AD
Jar, Eastern Mediterranean, Roman Empire, 4th century AD
Ribbed single-handle bottle, Eastern Mediterranean, late Roman Empire, 4th century AD
Handle Diptych, Eastern Mediterranean, Late Roman Empire, 5th-6th centuries AD
Ground glass bowl, Iran, Sassanid Dynasty, 5th-7th centuries AD
Glass plate, Eastern Han Dynasty, 25-220, tomb no. 5, Automobile Road, Guixian County, Guangxi (now Guigang City), excavated, guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region Museum collection
Glass Sheng-shaped Pei, Eastern Han Dynasty, 25-220 years, excavated from Tomb No. 6a of Jiuguling in Hepu, Guangxi, 2001, collected by Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region Museum
Glass Bowl, Northern Wei, 386-534, Excavated from the Northern Wei Tombs on Yingbin Avenue in Datong, Collected by datong Museum
Glass bottle, Northern Wei, 386-534, Datong City Museum Collection
Glass bottle, Sui Dynasty, 541-604, excavated from the tomb of Li Jingxun in Xi'an, national museum of China