A FINE AND RARE IMPERIAL FAMILLE ROSE ENAMELLED GLASS BRUSHWASHER

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A FINE AND RARE IMPERIAL FAMILLE ROSE ENAMELLED GLASS BRUSHWASHER
BLUE ENAMEL QIANLONG FOUR-CHARACTER SEAL MARK WITHIN A SQUARE AND OF THE PERIOD

The exterior of the clear compressed body finely enamelled with ornamental rockwork in shaded tones of blue and green springing up before white poppies, pink peonies and arched branches bearing prunus and yellow flowers with a pair of butterflies in flight to the reverse, the vertical rim painted around the interior with a wufu in iron-red, the details picked out in black enamel, the broad foot surrounding the countersunk base
3 3/8 in. (8.5 cm.) diam., box

Literature

Hugh Moss, 'Enamelled Glass Wares of the Ku Yueh Hsuan Group', Journal of the International Snuff Bottle Society, Vol. X, no. 2, June 1978, pl. 14, no. 7.
Sotheby's Hong Kong Twenty Years, 1993, no. 432.

Lot Essay

Previously sold in Hong Kong, 22 May 1979, lot 299, and again in these Rooms, The Imperial Sale, 28 April 1996, lot 33.

Hugh Moss, op. cit., states this type of enamelled clear glass ware is of the highest quality of any known from China and may be a further indication of a Peking Palace Workshop's source of vessels for enamelling.

Compare also the clear glass waterpot decorated with flowers and rocks and with an identical blue-black mark included in the Min Chiu Society Exhibition, Splendours of the Qing Dynasty, Catalogue, p. 417, no. 284, from the collections of A.W. Bahr and Paul and Helen Bernat, sold in Hong Kong, 15 November 1988, lot 76.

(US$50,000-70,000)

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