A RARE TURQUOISE-BLUE GLASS OVERLAY BOTTLE VASE

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A RARE TURQUOISE-BLUE GLASS OVERLAY BOTTLE VASE
QIANLONG INCISED FOUR-CHARACTER MARK WITHIN A SQUARE AND OF THE PERIOD (1736-1795)

Finely carved through transparent turquoise-blue glass overlay to the transparent ground with two pairs of confronted archaistic kui dragons on the globular body, above a band of pointed petals around the foot and beneath a band of ruyi on the shoulder, the cylindrical neck similarly decorated with a further pair of kui dragons bordered by circles
10 7/8 in. (27.7 cm.) high

拍品專文

This form of dragon design with its elongated body was an inspiration taken from kui dragon motif found on Zhou dynasty bronzes. Compare with similar archaistic dragons carved on a bottle vase in the Clague collection, illustrated in Chinese Glass of the Qing Dynasty 1644-1911, Phoenix Art Museum, 1987, no. 29; and two glass snuff bottles carved with kui dragons illustrated by R. Kleiner, Chinese Snuff Bottles, A Miniature Art from the Collection of Mary and George Bloch, Hong Kong, 1994, nos. 74 and 75.