A RARE CRIZZLED TRANSPARENT BLUE GLASS GADROONED BOWL

BEIJING GLASS PROPERTY OF MRS. FRITZ LOW-BEER Previously in the Fritz Low-Beer Collection

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A RARE CRIZZLED TRANSPARENT BLUE GLASS GADROONED BOWL
KANGXI

The shallow, rounded sides with lobes set slightly on the diagonal below the very slightly rippled rim, the center of the interior convex and the base correspondingly concave with a pontil mark in its center, raised on a separately made foot ring formed by a single coil of glass, of brilliant blue color shading to a darker tone on the raised areas
5 9/16in. (4.1cm.) diam., fitted box

Lot Essay

Compare the two similar gadrooned glass bowls, one blue, the other green, from the Avery Brundage Collection and the Corning Museum of Glass, respectively, included by Brown and Rabiner in the exhibition, Clear as Crystal, Red as Flame, China House Gallery, New York, April 21-June 16, 1990, Catalogue, nos. 7 and 8. Compare, also, another blue glass bowl in the Bristol City Art Gallery, England, discussed by Phelps Warren, 'Late Chinese Glass 1650-1900', Journal of Glass Studies, Corning Museum of Glass, vol. 19, 1977, p. 93, figs. 7a and 7b