A VERY RARE IMPERIAL TRANSLUCENT BLUE GLASS ZHADOU

YONGZHENG ENGRAVED FOUR-CHARACTER MARK WITHIN A SQUARE AND OF THE PERIOD (1723-1735)

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A VERY RARE IMPERIAL TRANSLUCENT BLUE GLASS ZHADOU
YONGZHENG ENGRAVED FOUR-CHARACTER MARK WITHIN A SQUARE AND OF THE PERIOD (1723-1735)
The characteristic waisted jar with compressed body and widely flared rim, of sapphire-blue colour, with areas of crizzling
5 1/8 in. (13 cm.) diam.

Provenance

Spink & Son, London
Bluett Oriental Arts Ltd., London

Literature

Minor Arts of China IV, Spink & Son, London, April 1989, no. 109
C. Brown and D. Rabiner, Clear as Crystal, Red as Flame, China Institute in America, New York, 1990, no. 14
C.F. Shangraw and C. Brown, A Chorus of Colors: Chinese Glass from Three American Collections, Asian Art Museum of San Francisco, 1995, no. 22

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Lot Essay

Yongzheng-marked glass wares are very limited in number. The areas of crizzling, which is due to an excess amount of alkali in the preparation, a tendency seen in glass of the Kangxi period, and would suggest that this example may have been produced early in the Yongzheng reign.

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