Hard cover catalogue, 64 glass artworks, 64 pp, full color illustrations, English text and Chinese captions.

Catalog available for purchase, $35 including domestic shipping, $55 international.

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CHINESE QING DYNASTY GLASS TREASURES:

A SELECTION FROM THE GADIENT COLLECTION

A FASCINATION FOR MINIATURES: THE LINDA F. CRAWLEY COLLECTION OF CHINESE SNUFF BOTTLES

CATALOGUE FOREWORD

In 1994 the Lentz Center for Asian Culture, University of Nebraska Museum, Lincoln presented 

an exhibit entitled “Chinese Glass: Bounties of the Qing: The Hilmes-Gadient Collection of Chinese 

Glass.” Three years later, in our Winter Park Gallery, we organized the “Treasures of Chinese Glass Work Shops” exhibit displaying some sixty-two pieces of Chinese Qing dynasty glass from the Ina and Sandford Gadient collection and produced a full catalogue of the objects exhibited. Subsequently, the exhibit, increased first to one hundred nineteen, then to hundred forty-six pieces travelled to several museums in Florida (Museum of Arts and Science in Daytona Beach, Lowe Art Museum in Miami, and St Petersburg Art Museum). 

Sandford and his wife, Ina, have been collecting Qing dynasty glass for almost forty years. Sandy 

was a “head hunter” traveling extensively “from Seattle to Miami, Boston to San Diego, and London to Hong Kong” for the need of his executive search business as he wrote in the preface of our exhibit catalogue. His purchases were the result of an extensive search through antique shops, auction houses as well as antique shows and antique malls. 

Today his extensive collection covers all the aspects of the production of Qing dynasty glass, whether monochrome, overlaid and carved, engraved, incised or decorated otherwise. My husband, François, and I have always been fond of Chinese glass. We met Sandy in the mid- 

eighties at an antique show in New Orleans. His and Ina’s enthusiasm and commitment to their 

collection made it imperative for us to help them, first by finding more and always rarer pieces, then by encouraging and supporting their desire to have their collection exhibited and published.

Finally, since time has now come for them to part with some of their treasured pieces, it has been a pleasure to prepare this catalogue. 

I would like to extend my heartfelt thanks Brian Dursum of the Lowe Art Museum in Miami for 

his foreword and his continuing support over the past years. I would also like to particularly thank 

Humphrey K. F. Hui for the fine essay that follows, and for his overall input in this catalog. For most, Mr. Hui needs no introduction: he has been an important actor of the Chinese art world, both as a collector and as a scholar. He is the author and co-author of many publications and articles, including Elegance and Radiance, Grandeur in Qing Glass, The Andrew K. F. Lee Collection 

(2000), Elegance in Relief: Carved Porcelain From Jingdezhen of the 19th to Early 20th Centuries 

(2006), Heavenly Creations: Chinese Snuff Bottles from the Collections of Anthony Cheung, Humphrey Hui, Po-ming Kwong, Tuyet Nguyet and Christopher Sin (2005), Inkplay in Microcosm: Inside-Painted Snuff Bottles, the Humphrey K. F. Hui Collection (2002), and The Imperial Connection: Court Related Chinese Snuff Bottles: The Humphrey K.F. Hui Collection (1998). 

The pieces offered here for sale have been chosen so as to present Qing Glass in its diversity. Half 

of them are monochrome, two thirds can be attributed to the 18th century, and more than a 

quarter bear an Imperial mark. Most of them have been manufactured in one of the studios of the 

Imperial Glasshouse since “during the Qing dynasty glassmaking comes under Imperial patronage for the first and only time in China’s history” as Clarence Shangraw wrote in his introduction to our previous catalogue. 

Please, enjoy these Qing dynasty glass pieces from the Gadient Collection. 

Susie Lorin 

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