QIANLONG FOUR-CHARACTER WHEEL-CUT MARK WITHIN A SQUARE AND OF THE PERIOD (1736-1795)

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AN OPAQUE LIGHT BLUE GLASS QUATREFOIL JARDINIÈRE
QIANLONG FOUR-CHARACTER WHEEL-CUT MARK WITHIN A SQUARE AND OF THE PERIOD (1736-1795)
The thick-walled bowl is crafted with four lobed sides in the form of a begonia flower and is raised on four small tab feet. The opaque glass is of a bright turquoise-blue tone.
8 in. (20.3 cm.) wide

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Lot Essay

Compare a similar slightly smaller (19.1 cm.) translucent blue-glass example from the Michael D. Stevenson collection sold at Christie's New York, 18-19 September 2014, lot 1167, and two turquoise glass jardinières also of begonia form, one illustrated in Claudia Brown, The Robert H. Clague Collection, Chinese Glass of the Qing Dynasty, 1644-1911, The Phoenix Art Museum, 1987, no. 45 and again in and in the Suntory Museum of Art, Shincho no garasu 1644-1911 R. H. Karagu korekushon (Qing Dynasty Glass 1644-1911, R. H. Clague Collection), Tokyo, 1988, p. 27, no. 43; and another one in François & Gilles Lorin, Chinese Qing Dynasty Glass Treasures: A Selection from the Gadient Collection, Winter Park, 2009, no. 16.

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