Lot Essay
Compare the similar vase included in the exhibition, Chinese Jewellery and Glass, Spink & Son, Ltd., London, 1989, Catalogue no. 157
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A RARE PAIR OF RED OVERLAY YELLOW GLASS VASES
18TH/19TH CENTURY
Of thick-walled gu form, each carved through the claret-red overlay to the opaque, deep yellow ground with two chilong racing around the knop, with lotus scroll above and below and bands of leaf tips at the rims, chips to one--8 3/4in. (22.2cm.) high (2)
18TH/19TH CENTURY
Of thick-walled gu form, each carved through the claret-red overlay to the opaque, deep yellow ground with two chilong racing around the knop, with lotus scroll above and below and bands of leaf tips at the rims, chips to one--8 3/4in. (22.2cm.) high (2)