Lot 83
83
AN UNUSUAL FOUR-COLOR OVERLAY BEIJING GLASS VASE

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AN UNUSUAL FOUR-COLOR OVERLAY BEIJING GLASS VASE
18TH CENTURY

Of slender baluster form and set with two bold monster-mask and ring handles at the high shoulders, carved in relief in transparent blue, green, red and opaque brown with a phoenix perched on rockwork by flowering peony on one side and a parrot in bamboo by flowering plants on the other, all against an opaque swirled buff-brown and yellow-green ground streaked with red, tiny chips to some of the overlay - 6 1/8 in. (15.7 cm.) high

Lot Essay

Compare a melon-shaped water pot with the same opaque swirled buff-brown ground in the collection of Charlotte C. and John C. Weber, included in the exhibition Clear as Crystal, Red as Flame, China Institute in America, 1990, and illustrated by Brown and Rabiner in the Catalogue, p. 92, no. 59. Another example, of double gourd form, was sold Christie's Hong Kong, January 16/17, 1989, lot 425