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

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AN IMPERIAL OPAQUE TURQUOISE GLASS TRIPOD CENSER
QIANLONG INCISED FOUR-CHARACTER MARK WITHIN A DOUBLE SQUARE AND OF THE PERIOD (1736-1795)
The well-formed compressed body is raised on three short conical legs and flanked by a pair of curved loop-handles rising from the rim. The glass is of a rich turquoise colour.
4 ½ in. (11.5 cm.) wide

Provenance

Collection of Walter and Phyllis Shorenstein.
Christie's Hong Kong, Luminous Colours: Treasures from the Shorenstein Collection, 1 December 2010, lot 2919
Property from a Princely Collection.

Literature

C.F. Shangraw and C. Brown, A Chorus of Colors: Chinese Glass from Three American Collections, Asian Art Museum of San Francisco, 1996, no. 49.

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Lot Essay

The shape of this censer is based on bronze prototypes of the early Ming dynasty. Other glass censers of this shape, but of different colour, have also been published. One in the collection of the Palace Museum, of opaque pink colour, still fitted with its metal liner, is illustrated in Zhongguo meishu quanji - Gongyi meishu bian, 10, Beijing, 1987, pl. 254. Two others, of opaque yellow and opaque bluish-turquoise colour, in the Andrew K.F. Lee Collection, are illustrated in Elegance and Radiance, The Art Museum, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, 2000, pp. 182-85, nos. 54 and 55, respectively.

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