A BEIJING BLUE OVERLAY GLASS BOTTLE VASE

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A BEIJING BLUE OVERLAY GLASS BOTTLE VASE
QIANLONG INCISED FOUR-CHARACTER MARK AND OF THE PERIOD (1736-1795)

Finely carved through a sapphire-blue layer to the opaque white ground, the globular body decorated with a pair of bats and a butterfly variously in flight amidst a fruiting peach tree growing on a rockwork ground detailed with bamboo and chrysanthemum sprays, all below a straight cylindrical neck carved with an archaistic phoenix, supported on a short splayed foot, the underside of the foot bearing the reign mark with each character incised on a cardinal point
7 in. (17.7 cm.) high, box

Lot Essay

Compare with a related red overlay glass vase also with the reign mark incised on the four compass points, from the Palace Museum collection, illustrated in Zhongguo Meishu Quanji, vol. 10, Wenwuchubanshe, Beijing, 1987, p. 140, no. 263.

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