A RARE CARVED RED GLASS BOTTLE

IMPERIAL, PALACE WORKSHOPS, BEIJING, 1730-1790

細節

A RARE CARVED RED GLASS BOTTLE
Imperial, Palace Workshops, Beijing, 1730-1790
Of tall rounded-rectangular shape, finely carved in relief with two writhing chilong below a band of pendent overlapping plantain leaves at the neck, the transparent, bubble-suffused glass of orange-red color, stopper
3 1/8in. (7.9cm.) high

來源

Bob Kleiner Collection, London.

拍品專文

Typical of Imperial glass from the mid-Qianlong period, complete with the favorite Palace subject of chilong (a snub-nosed dragon with bifurcated tail), introduced here is the concept of a plantain-leaf neck band, which became a standard feature of late-Qianlong multiple overlays for the Court.

Plantain (bajiao) leaves mean 'to welcome in' (zhao), in the sense of anticipating something favorable. A red glass bottle with similar band of overlapping pendent plantain leaves, at the neck also attributed to the Beijing Palace Workshops, is illustrated in Chinese Snuff Bottles: A Miniature Art from the Collection of Mary and George Bloch, Hong Kong, 1994, p. 131, no. 76.