CHINE, DYNASTIE SONG, XEME-XIIEME SIECLE

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RARE VASE RELIQUAIRE EN VERRE TRANSLUCIDE BLEU PALE
CHINE, DYNASTIE SONG, XEME-XIIEME SIECLE
La panse de forme globulaire surmontée d'un col tubulaire aux bords largement évasés. Le verre d'une belle couleur bleutée tirant vers le vert pâle.
Hauteur: 11 cm. (4 3⁄8 in.)

Provenance

J.J. Lally & Co., New York, 9 December 1992, by repute.
Collection of Walter and Phyllis Shorenstein.
Christie's Hong Kong, Luminous Colours: Treasures from the Shorenstein Collection, 1 December 2010, lot 2910.

Literature

C.F. Shangraw and C. Brown, A Chorus of Colors: Chinese Glass from Three American Collections, Asian Art Museum of San Francisco, 1996, p. 39, no. 12.

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Further details

A RARE TRANSPARENT PALE BLUE-GREEN GLASS RELIQUARY BOTTLE
CHINA, SONG DYNASTY, 10-12TH CENTURY

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Lot Essay

This bottle may have been a reliquary vessel, that would have been placed in the crypt of a temple or pagoda. It has been suggested that the shape of this bottle may have derived from the transparent pale blue glass bottles of Iranian origin, made in the 9th-10th centuries, such as the example illustrated in Delicacy and Glamour - Ancient Chinese Glasswork, National Museum of History, Taiwan, 2000, p. 94 (top).

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