BEIJING GLASS
A RARE CLEAR GLASS FLUTED BOWL

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A RARE CLEAR GLASS FLUTED BOWL
17TH/18TH CENTURY

The deep, slightly bulbous sides with shallow vertical fluting rising from a countersunk base with pontil mark to a line below the rolled rim, the once clear glass now extensively crizzled in a pattern of broad swirls making it appear semi-translucent in areas--7½in. (19cm.) diam.

Lot Essay

A number of originally clear glass vessels now grayed and made translucent through crizzling have been published. Warren Phelps in his article, "Later Chinese Glass Studies, 1650-1900", Journal of Glass Studies, vol. 19, 1977, discusses a number of pieces of this type and illustrates several, including a bowl with its pontil mark still present in the George Crofts Collection, Royal Ontario Museum, Canada, fig. 12; a large baluster vase which shows the same striations as the present example, in the Victoria and Albert Museum, fig. 8 and a jar and cover in the St. Louis Art Museum, fig. 14 which has spiraled fluting around the sides

Compare, also, the crizzled clear glass alms bowl previously from the Plesch and Harris Collections included in the exhibition, Chinese Jewellery and Glass, Spink & Son Ltd, London, December 1989, Catalogue no. 122, and a bowl and cover in the British Museum, London, illustrated by Jenyns, Chinese Art III, New York, 1981, no. 75