清 金星石雕持花仕女立像

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英文品名：A QING GOLDSTONE CARVING OF A STANDING LADY HOLDING A FLOWER 尺寸：H:18cm 金星石雕。仕女立像，身姿微側，長袖隨風揚起。右手持花，左手下垂，衣褶翻卷生動，線條流暢。石質呈金棕色，滿布細小金星閃爍，拋光瑩亮。雕工圓熟，為清代象生擺件。金星石一名金砂石，並非天然寶石，而為人工熔融玻璃：於氧化矽熔液中加入銅屑，緩冷時銅還原為金屬細片，懸浮玻璃基體中，光下閃現星點。相傳自十七世紀義大利威尼斯傳入東方，清代廣東海貿興盛，此料多經澳門、廣州輸入，俗稱金星料。雕仕女取其閃光喻衣帶生風，因玻璃料脆，鏤空轉折處易崩，故衣褶多作大面弧線，少細角。 A goldstone carving of a standing lady. She is shown turned slightly, her long sleeves fluttering in the breeze. The right hand holds a flower and the left falls to her side; the robe folds are swept and lively. The stone is of a golden brown hue, densely flecked with sparkling gold particles, polished to a bright lustre. Goldstone is not a natural gem but an artificial sunglass: silica glass is melted with copper filings and cooled slowly, so that metallic copper crystals form within the matrix and sparkle when turned. The material is said to have come from seventeenth-century Venice, reaching China through Canton and Macau under the Qing maritime trade, where it was called starstone glass. Carvers exploited its glitter to suggest wind-swept drapery. Being brittle glass, openwork angles tend to chip, so robes are modelled in broad curves rather than sharp undercuts.

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