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SUMMARY:Works-in-Progress Session: "Lustrous Matters: Aventurine Glass in t
 he Early Modern World"
DESCRIPTION:-presented by Cynthia Fang\, Ph.D. Student\,\nDepartment of Art
  History\, University of California\, Los Angeles\n\nHosted by the Early M
 odern Research Group\n\nOnline event via Zoom\n\nTo register for this even
 t\, please email the Early Modern Research Group.\n\nGlass––and especi
 ally aventurine glass––is a compelling material for tracing connection
 s between makers\, spaces\, agents\, trade and diplomatic circuits\, as we
 ll as desires for inventive things. First cited in 1626\, aventurine was p
 roduced by artisans working on Murano. Its distinctive type of appearance\
 , glistening with golden speckles\, is created by adding copper to molten 
 glass. Archives show that aventurine appeared in Qing China in 1711\, and 
 by 1744\, it was being produced in the Qing imperial workshops. This paper
  considers the global movement of materials\, technologies\, and objects\,
  and their active uptake\, but also the resistance of some cultural forms 
 to easy translation. The case of aventurine attests to how some materials 
 defy expectations for transcultural translations. Thus\, the production an
 d export of Venetian glass to China\, together with the circulation of tec
 hnological knowledge and concerns with secrecy\, provide insights into the
  potency of new materials and creative thinking.
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