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DESCRIPTION:Since 2019\, the Corning Museum of Glass has been investigating
  its realgar-colored glass objects. A Chinese innovation\, this red-and-or
 ange glass was developed in the early decades of the eighteenth century an
 d used at the Qing imperial glassworks to create a range of vessels—but th
 e secret to its making was subsequently lost. The presence of a broken snu
 ff bottle in the museum’s collection enabled more extensive scientific tes
 ting to understand the precise chemical composition of this glass. Armed w
 ith this recipe\, materials scientists batched and re-created this histori
 cal glass in the lab. Most recently\, the museum’s hot glass team used thi
 s new glass in wood-burning and gas furnaces. These experiments revealed t
 he importance of heat control and rapid cooling to the creation of differe
 nt hues in the same glass object\, providing insights into how eighteenth-
 century glassblowers might have worked with this unique material. As part 
 of this ongoing project\, the museum is considering the effects of mold-bl
 owing on colors and patterns and exploring cold-working techniques. Supple
 mented by archival findings\, this presentation will report on the knowled
 ge gained from the re-creation of realgar glass in the lab and in the hot 
 shop\, arguing for the importance of these research methods to art histori
 cal inquiry. An alumni spotlight lecture.Object LabsAt BGC\, we use an obj
 ect-centered approach to advance the study of the decorative arts\, design
  history\, and material culture. Join our student educators before our Apr
 il and May public events to learn about some of the objects in BGC's Study
  Collection. Each week we will showcase three objects carefully selected f
 rom the collection\, which includes over 4\,000 objects in a variety of me
 dia.April 9\, 16\, 23\, and 30\; May 1338 West 86th Street\, 5–6 pmFounded
  in 2011\, the BGC Study Collection supports student research by providing
  opportunities for hands-on close examination of objects. Learn more about
  the BGC Study Collection here.Julie Bellemare joined the Corning Museum o
 f Glass as curator of early modern glass in 2022. In this role\, she is re
 sponsible for stewarding\, researching\, and expanding the museum’s collec
 tion of glass produced between 1250 and 1825. Specializing in Chinese enam
 els and glass\, she holds a PhD in decorative arts\, design history\, mate
 rial culture from Bard Graduate Center and a master’s in the history of ar
 t and visual culture from the University of Oxford. She has also held rese
 arch positions at the Metropolitan Museum of Art\, the National Museum of 
 Asian Art and the Brooklyn Museum and has published widely on global decor
 ative arts of the eighteenth century.
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SUMMARY:Bard Graduate Center: Realgar Glass
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