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

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AN IMPERIAL TURQUOISE-BLUE GLASS BOTTLE VASE
QIANLONG WHEEL-CUT FOUR-CHARACTER MARK WITHIN A SQUARE AND OF THE PERIOD (1736-1795)
The bulbous body is raised on a splayed foot with a slightly recessed base and rises to a tall, cylindrical neck. The opaque glass is of even turquoise color.
8 5/8 in. (21.9 cm.) high, hardwood stand, cloth box

Provenance

J. J. Lally & Co., New York, no. 4430.

Literature

J. J. Lally & Co., Elegantly Made: Art for the Chinese Literati, New York, 2020, no. 20.

Exhibited

New York, J. J. Lally & Co., Elegantly Made: Art for the Chinese Literati, 13-27 March 2020.

Special notice

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Lot Essay

As noted in the catalogue note for the the previous lot, glass vases of this distinctive shape were produced in the Qing imperial workshops in various colors in both transparent and opaque glass.

A very similar opaque turquoise-blue glass vase of this shape from the collection of Robert H. Clague is illustrated by C. Brown and D. Rabiner, Chinese Glass of the Qing Dynasty, 1644-1911, Phoenix, 1987, pp. 36-37, no. 35. Another opaque turquoise glass vase of slightly different shape, Qianlong mark and period, is illustrated in Clear as Crystal, Red as Flame, New York, 1990, p. 69, lot 33.

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