Chinese reverse glass painting, 1720-1820
type: CreativeWork
about: DefinedTerm
  alternate name: Glass underpainting
about: https://id.rijksmuseum.nl/320126584
about: https://id.rijksmuseum.nl/320126645
about: https://id.rijksmuseum.nl/330134301
abstract: Displaying a talent for combining aesthetic sensibility with scientific rigor, the author has given new life to something that once excited European passions: an original, non-academic art at the forefront of the ?new technology? of the time. For decades, aristocrats of the Old World and then American collectors (the latter at the end of the eighteenth and beginning of the nineteenth centuries) spent countless sums on the purchase of these works, which were worth a fortune. These wealthy collectors of curiosities of all types were also most certainly great dreamers seeking a worthy setting for their dreams. Unbeknownst to them, their endeavours had much greater scope, creating and nourishing the conditions for a rare encounter between two worlds: a golden age of atypical collaboration, a combined adventure between China and Europe.
author: https://id.rijksmuseum.nl/310206903
contributor: https://id.rijksmuseum.nl/31032712
creator: https://id.rijksmuseum.nl/310206903
language: eng
language: fre
subject of: Statement
  additional type: http://vocab.getty.edu/aat/300435416
  text: Includes translation
work example: https://id.rijksmuseum.nl/301305787

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property ID: NL-AmRIJ
value: 305787