Message #45594

[Joey Silver / Si Zhouyi 義周司]

Dear Peter,

     I've corrected the title on my posts to Li Ruchen, instead of Lee RuChen. Thank you.

     Is your bottle in blue 'crystal',  blue quartz or blue lead crystal?
     If the later, nothing natural about it, except for the  25% oxygen, 30% silicon, 24% lead oxide, 10% sodium or potassium, 10% calcium, and 1% other components such as iron, tin and fluorine – which are added to alter the chemical and physical properties of the glass.
     The colour might be in the mix, but that does not make it 'natural'.

     But Jill & Li Hui told me that Li Ruchen stained the bottle blanks before she painted them for me.
They might have meant that she ordered pre-stained blanks, but that is not what they said.
And the quartz blanks were obviously NOT coloured  in the quartz, but on the interior surface.
Best,
Joey