A VERY FINE AND RARE BEIJING RED-GLASS OVERLAY WATERPOT
A VERY FINE AND RARE BEIJING RED-GLASS OVERLAY WATERPOT

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A VERY FINE AND RARE BEIJING RED-GLASS OVERLAY WATERPOT
INCISED QIANLONG FOUR-CHARACTER MARK AND OF THE PERIOD

The slightly compressed body is finely cut through a layer of deep ruby-red to reveal in positive relief on one side a bat and a sinuous chilong climbing over the mouthrim, and on the other side an archaistic phoenix, all against an even opaque white ground, the reign mark lightly incised on the four extreme compass points on a convex base
2 3/4 in. (7 cm.) high, box

Lot Essay

The dragon and phoenix combination of motifs rarely appear together in glass wares. A glass overlay vase in the Palace Museum, Beijing, designed with archaistic phoenix within roundels, is illustrated in Zhongguo Meishu Quanji, no. 266; where it has been suggested by the author that the vase was produced by the workshop within the Palace of Mental Cultivation, ibid., p. 83.

Compare a glass-overlay globular waterpot with two clambering chilong, bearing a Xing Yuhang Tang hallmark and dated to the early 19th century from the Robert L. Chasin and Andrew K. F. Lee collections, illustrated by P. Moss, In Scholar's Taste, 1983, p. 168, no. 109, and included in the exhibition, Clear as Crystal Red as Flame, China Institute in America, 1990, illustrated in the Catalogue, p. 93, no. 60.

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