A Beijing three-colour overlay glass baluster vase

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A Beijing three-colour overlay glass baluster vase
of slender tapering form with flaring neck, carved in relief with three butterflies in flight among flowering peony and prunus branches on an opaque white ground, set on a clear dark-blue glass stand of circular form on four ruyi-head feet -- 8¾.in (22.2cm) high, 18th Century, (minor nicks to extremeties).
See Colour Plate 51.

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