A RARE IMPERIAL TWO-COLOUR RED AND IVORY GLASS VASE

QIANLONG INSCRIBED FOUR-CHARACTER MARK AND OF THE PERIOD (1736-1795)

Details

A RARE IMPERIAL TWO-COLOUR RED AND IVORY GLASS VASE
QIANLONG INSCRIBED FOUR-CHARACTER MARK AND OF THE PERIOD (1736-1795)
Of ovoid form, the ivory body set between a dark red band of overlapping lotus petals below and a band of shou character medallions flanked by bats on the shoulder, with a pair of dragon scroll handles, and a band of upright leaf tips on the slender trumpet-shaped neck, the four characters of the mark evenly spaced around the outer edge of the bottom of the broad foot ring
8 3/8 in. (21.4 cm.) high

Provenance

The Tsui Museum of Art, Hong Kong
The Jingguantang Collection, sold at Christie's New York, 16 September 1998, lot 219

Literature

Splendour of Ancient Chinese Art: Selections from the Collections of T.T. Tsui Galleries of Chinese Art Worldwide, Hong Kong 1996, no. 82 (right)

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Lot Essay

The white body of this vase may be imitating jade, while the carved red areas are imitating carved red lacquer.

The unusually spaced Qianlong four-character mark on the present vase can also be seen on the bottom of the foot of two multi-colour glass vases in the Palace Museum, Beijing, illustrated by Zhang Rong (ed.), Luster of Autumn Water - Glass of the Qing Imperial Workshop, Forbidden City Publishing House, 2005, p. 283, nos. 51 and 112, as well as the Imperial four-colour glass hu-shaped vase in the Shorenstein Collection, in the present sale, lot xxxx.

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