A RARE SMALL TRANSPARENT BLUE GLASS WATER POT

KANGXI PERIOD (1662-1722)

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A RARE SMALL TRANSPARENT BLUE GLASS WATER POT
KANGXI PERIOD (1662-1722)
The crizzled glass of soft sapphire-blue tone, perhaps copying a metal or porcelain shape, raised on a flat base with slightly countersunk center, the body beveled at its lower edge before tapering towards the flared rim with flat top and inner beveled edge
2 7/8 in. (7.3 cm.) diam.

Provenance

Mrs. Walter Sedgwick Collection; Sotheby's, London, 2 July 1968, lot 43.
Professor P. H. and Mrs. T. Plesch Collection, G.h.7.

Exhibited

Oxford, Ashmolean Museum, in conjunction with the Oriental Ceramic Society, October 1979, no. 30.

Lot Essay

The shape of this water pot is closely linked with Syrian glass and metalwork of the fourteenth century, which was copied in fifteenth century Chinese blue and white wares. For illustrations of these three types of prototypes: the fourteenth century enamel-decorated glass basin from either Syria or Egypt; a silver-inlaid brass example of similar date and origin; and a Chinese blue and white example of fifteenth century date, see J. Carswell, Blue and White: Chinese Porcelain and Its Impact on the Western World, University of Chicago, 1985, pp. 82-5, nos. 26-8.

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