A VERY RARE IRIDESCENT PALE GREEN GLASS TRIPOD RELIQUARY JAR AND COVER

SONG DYNASTY, 10TH-12TH CENTURY

Details

A VERY RARE IRIDESCENT PALE GREEN GLASS TRIPOD RELIQUARY JAR AND COVER
SONG DYNASTY, 10TH-12TH CENTURY
The globular body with three raised bosses positioned between the three slender, curved supports, with a depression around the mouth to receive the cover which has a deep collar below a flared top and tall finial, the glass now encrusted and opaque, and iridescent in areas
6¼ in. (15.9 cm.) high

Provenance

J.J. Lally & Co., New York, 22 June 1994

Literature

C.F. Shangraw and C. Brown, A Chorus of Colors: Chinese Glass from Three American Collections, Asian Art Museum of San Francisco, 1995, no. 11

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Lot Essay

This unusual vessel is probably based on bronze prototypes, and may relate to other glass items found in Buddhist relic caches, such as those illustrated in Zhongguo meishu quanji - Gongyi meishu bian, 10, Beijing, 1987, pls. 233-35.

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