A note on Prussian blue in nineteenth-century Canton
A note on Prussian blue in nineteenth-century Canton
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十九世纪广州的普鲁士蓝笔记
DOI：
10.1179/2047058412y.0000000002
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发表时间：
2012
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0.8
通讯作者：
Kate Bailey
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作者：
Kate Bailey
摘要普鲁士蓝在19世纪的日本得到了广泛的研究，特别是与浮世绘版画中的蓝色革命有关，但中国艺术家对普鲁士蓝的使用并没有得到同样程度的关注。这是东印度公司的一种商品，这种色素被用来“改善”茶叶的颜色，但在大约1825年左右，这一贸易突然停止。现在看来，普鲁士蓝贸易的停止与在广州北门建立普鲁士蓝工厂的时间不谋而合，有关工业过程的知识可能是从伦敦的一家制造商那里秘密获得的。在1817年至1830年间，茶叶检查员约翰·里夫斯从广州寄给伦敦园艺学会的一本中国植物水彩画画册解封期间收集到的颜料碎片中，已经通过化学方法鉴定出了这种色素。这一发现表明，保护者不应排除在中国作品中发现普鲁士蓝的可能性，这些作品至少可以追溯到19世纪初。
Abstract The use of Prussian blue in nineteenth-century Japan has been extensively researched, particularly in relation to the ‘blue revolution’ in ukiyo-e prints but its use by Chinese artists has not received the same degree of attention. A commodity traded by the East India Company, this pigment was used to ‘improve’ the colour of tea, but in or about 1825 the trade abruptly ceased. It now seems fairly clear that the cessation of the Prussian blue trade coincided with the setting up of a Prussian blue factory at the northern gate of Canton, and that knowledge of the industrial process was possibly acquired covertly from a London manufacturer. The pigment has been identified chemically among paint fragments collected during the dis-binding of an album of Chinese botanical watercolours sent from Canton to the Horticultural Society of London by tea inspector John Reeves between 1817 and 1830. This finding suggests that conservators should not exclude the possibility of finding Prussian blue on Chinese work dating from at least the early part of the nineteenth century.