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Lot Essay
A near identical example is in the Palace Museum Beijing, is illustrated by Zhang Rong (ed.), Luster of Autumn Water, Glass of the Qing Imperial Workshop, Forbidden City Publishing House, 2005, no. 33, where the authors explain the form, inspired from bronzes of the Shang and Zhou dynasties, was shaped by molten glass blown into a mould. A second Qianlong-marked glass vase of this shape, but of deeper blue tone and with a heavily crizzled surface is in the Andrew K.F. Lee Collection, and is illustrated in Elegance and Radiance, The Art Museum, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, 2000, no. 46.
A smaller Yongzheng-marked blue glass example from the Charlotte and John Weber Collection was included in the exhibition, Clear as Crystal, Red as Flame, China Institute, New York, 1990, and illustrated in the Catalogue, no. 17, where a red glass Yongzheng-marked fanggu from the same collection is illustrated as no. 16 and is also on the cover.
A smaller Yongzheng-marked blue glass example from the Charlotte and John Weber Collection was included in the exhibition, Clear as Crystal, Red as Flame, China Institute, New York, 1990, and illustrated in the Catalogue, no. 17, where a red glass Yongzheng-marked fanggu from the same collection is illustrated as no. 16 and is also on the cover.