INCISED QIANLONG FOUR-CHARACTER MARK AND OF THE PERIOD (1736-95)

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A FINE OPAQUE ORANGE GLASS LOBED VASE
Incised Qianlong four-character mark and of the period (1736-95)
The ovoid body with sides tapering to the foot, decorated with vertically scored indentations to form eight lobes, the sloping shoulders carved with three concentric rings before the waisted neck with flared mouthrim, the flat base incised with each character of the reign mark on the four extreme compass points, the opaque metal of golden honey-orange tones
7½ in. (19 cm.) high

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Lot Essay

Opaque orange glass is probably an attempt to imitate realgar or lacquer. Compare a chrysanthemum-shaped dish in the Charlotte C. and John C. Weber collection, illustrated in Clear as Crystal, Red and Flame: Later Chinese Glass, New York, 1990, no. 32; and a pair of carved vases from the Robert H. Clague collection, illustrated in Chinese Glass of the Qing Dynasty: 1644-1911, Phoenix, 1987, p. 40, no. 40, where the author mentions a waisted jar and a bowl of similar material, formerly from Carl Kempe collection, now in the Museum of Far Eastern Antiquities, Stockholm.

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