Early ruby red Peking glass is not something I am really knowledgable about. I took a chance and bought this one off eBay.
My best guess is that it is from the early Imperial glass shops.. Just not absolutely sure yet.. Still researching.
The early glass shops mixed gold flakes into the glass that resulted in this beautiful ruby red coloring.
I hope some day to be able and confirm this to be 18th century glass.
I did find this one clue from Les cahiers d'Alain Truong site
" We know from Treasury 5, no. 804, bearing an authentic Yongzheng mark, that ruby-glass at this time was prone to be swirled, flawed, and bubble-suffused. The same may have been true of the Kangxi period. We do not know whether a problem afflicting the imperial glassworks would necessarily have plagued a private, princely glassworks, but it is likely that the same expertise and technology would have been made available to Yinti, who was close to the Jesuits. Among the ruby-glass examples bearing the Wanya xuan mark, several, such as this one, are of excellent quality, while others, such as Treasury 5, no. 753, are less pure. The latter is also considerably more convincingly worn than most."
My bottle shows swirling around the entire bottle ( last pic ). Very hard to get a picture of, but here is one image that turned out ok..
The glass is also loaded with bubbles.
Sold...
My best guess is that it is from the early Imperial glass shops.. Just not absolutely sure yet.. Still researching.
The early glass shops mixed gold flakes into the glass that resulted in this beautiful ruby red coloring.
I hope some day to be able and confirm this to be 18th century glass.
I did find this one clue from Les cahiers d'Alain Truong site
" We know from Treasury 5, no. 804, bearing an authentic Yongzheng mark, that ruby-glass at this time was prone to be swirled, flawed, and bubble-suffused. The same may have been true of the Kangxi period. We do not know whether a problem afflicting the imperial glassworks would necessarily have plagued a private, princely glassworks, but it is likely that the same expertise and technology would have been made available to Yinti, who was close to the Jesuits. Among the ruby-glass examples bearing the Wanya xuan mark, several, such as this one, are of excellent quality, while others, such as Treasury 5, no. 753, are less pure. The latter is also considerably more convincingly worn than most."
My bottle shows swirling around the entire bottle ( last pic ). Very hard to get a picture of, but here is one image that turned out ok..
The glass is also loaded with bubbles.
Sold...
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