A RARE TRANSPARENT AMBER LOBED DOUBLE-GOURD-FORM VASE

18TH CENTURY

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A RARE TRANSPARENT AMBER LOBED DOUBLE-GOURD-FORM VASE
18TH CENTURY
The upper and lower bodies each have six lobes that extend from the six-lobed, scalloped collar encircling the waist to the conformingly lobed mouth and rim of the recessed base. The glass is of tobacco-brown color.
7¼ in. (18.5 cm.) high

Provenance

Imperial Oriental Art, New York, 1998.
Hugh W. Greenberg (1930-2013) Collection, Franklin, Michigan.

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Lot Essay

A transparent ruby-red glass vase of this rare shape, dated to the 18th century, was sold at Christie's New York, 21-22 September 1995, lot 468. A few porcelain vases of this shape have also been published, all with a clair-de-lune glaze and a Yongzheng mark: one in the National Palace Museum, Taiwan, illustrated by Liu Liang-yu in A Survey of Chinese Ceramics: Ch'ing Official and Popular Wares, Taipei, 1991, vol. 5, p. 100 (right); one in the Grandidier Collection, Musée Guimet, Paris, illustrated in Oriental Ceramics, The World's Great Collections, Tokyo, 1981, no. 169; and one from the Cleveland Museum of Art, sold at Christie's New York, 21 September 2000, lot 374. (Fig. 1)

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