拍品专文
A small number of famille rose enamelled clear glass vessels for the scholar's table, bearing blue-enamel Qianlong marks, have been published. A waterpot from the A.W. Bahr and Paul and Helen Bernat collections was sold in Hong Kong, 15 November 1988, lot 76; subsequently included in The China Institute of America 1990 exhibition Clear as Crystal, Red as Flame, Later Chinese Glass, Catalogue, no. 23; and again, in the Min Chiu Society Exhibition, Splendour of the Qing Dynasty, Hong Kong, 1992, illustrated in the Catalogue, p. 417, no. 284. Two brushwashers in this style have been published: one sold in these Rooms, The Imperial Sale, 28 April 1996, lot 33; the other was illustrated by Hugh Moss, 'Enamelled Glass Wares of the Ku Yueh Hsuan Group', Journal of the International Chinese Snuff Bottle Society, vol. X, no. 2, June 1978, pl. 14, no. 7, where Moss states that 'this type of enamelled clear glass ware is of the highest quality of any known from China'. An enamelled clear glass waterpot and vase, forming a double gourd when placed on top of one another, from the same group, was sold in Hong Kong, 1 November 1999, lot 490.