AN INCISED AND GILT DATED WHITE GLASS BOTTLE

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AN INCISED AND GILT DATED WHITE GLASS BOTTLE
QIANLONG TWO-CHARACTER SEAL MARK ON THE BASE AND ON THE REVERSE DATED JIAZI YEAR, QIANLONG, POSSIBLY CORRESPONDING TO 1744, AND WITH SEAL OF THE ARTIST ZUOTIAN

Of rounded rectangular shape, delicately incised and gilt on one side with three geese standing in marshland with millet, a fourth flying above them, the reverse with a vertical four-line inscription in running script, a small pale cream inclusion in the glass at one side
2¼in. (5.8cm) high, stopper

Provenance

Irvin Goldstein Collection
Al and Julie Stemple

Lot Essay

The first two lines of the inscription are a poem which refers to the scene on the other side and is followed by the cyclical date, jiazi year, dong (winter), Qianlong reign, 1744, signed by the artist, Zuotian

For two white nephrite precursors of this type see Humphrey K. F. Hui and Christopher C. H. Sin, An Imperial Qing Tradition, Hong Kong, 1994, pp. 61-62, nos. 59 and 60

For a similar depiction of geese on a later painted porcelain example with Guangxu mark see Robert Kleiner, Chinese Snuff Bottles in the Collection of Mary and George Bloch, London, 1995, p. 337, no. 219

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