Dear George,
Thanks for the info, though I have the late Al Stempel's article - I've just not re-read it recently. I do remember that Julie Stempel made some of the best fish stew I'd ever tasted, when I ate dinner in their home in 1978 in Hong Kong.
'Boshan' is the present Pinyin romanization of the Chinese name, and is pretty much the universally used version today, George.
'Po Shan' is the Wade-Giles version....
Best,
Joey
my question is that how a early period artist paint it on a late 19th glass bottle?
I don't think it wrong. If Early Period painting is 1800 to 1870, then it would be correct for an Early artist ( 19th century ) painting in a 19th glass bottle. What am I missing in your question Steven ?
Marcos, a little more about Boshan/Po Shan glass..
This is from an article, Inside Painted Snuff Bottles of the Shantung School", A Stempel, Arts Of Asia, December, 1976.
( Also for Joey ) "The art in Shandong/Shantung area goes back to 1890, with at least one known bottle bearing that date, but the top quality referred to dates from only the 1970's. To fully understand the origin of this school, it must be realized that Po Shan has been and still is one of the three major glass manufacturing areas in China. Po Shan has been a glass center for about 400 years, certainly well back into the Ming dynasty, and when a continuing source was needed to fill the ever increasing demand in Peking, not so far away, for bottles which the resurrected art of painting could be carried out, it was the obvious choice. ( I (
the author ) use the term "resurrected" because inside painted bottles were produced in China much earlier in the nineteenth century, during a period known as the "Early School", but in much smaller numbers than at the end of the century. It is not certain if Peking was the only center of this earlier painting, but there is little reason to doubt that Po Shan was the source of the glass bottles even then.)"
On a side note Marcos. In my previous post where I tell of Boshan being the source, here it is spelled Po Shan. I can not recall where I picked up my Boshan spelling from.