AN UNUSUAL OPAQUE YELLOW GLASS VASE

QING DYNASTY, 18TH CENTURY

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AN UNUSUAL OPAQUE YELLOW GLASS VASE
QING DYNASTY, 18TH CENTURY
The high-shouldered body narrowing towards the slightly flared foot and tapering towards the thick, lipped mouth rim, the base with an apocryphal six-character Qianlong sealmark
6 3/4 in. (17.2 cm.) high

Provenance

Charlotte Horstmann & Gerald Godfrey Ltd., Hong Kong, November 1987

Literature

C.F. Shangraw and C. Brown, A Chorus of Colors: Chinese Glass from Three American Collections, Asian Art Museum of San Francisco, 1995, no. 65

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Lot Essay

A vase of this unusual shape, in resemblence to a ceramic meiping vase, but in transparent glass is illustrated by Zhang Rong (ed.), Luster of Autumn Water - Glass of the Qing Imperial Workshop, Forbidden City Publishing House, 2005, p. 163, no. 30.

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