A VERY RARE MULTI-COLOUR OVERLAY GLASS VASE

QING DYNASTY, 18TH CENTURY

Details

A VERY RARE MULTI-COLOUR OVERLAY GLASS VASE
QING DYNASTY, 18TH CENTURY
The pear-shaped body tapering at the shoulder to a tall slender neck, the semi-opaque body of slightly lavender-white colour decorated in yellow and ochre with stems of prunus, pomegranate and finger-citron bearing fruit of vivid red colour interspersed between further boughs of blossoming prunus in blue, with a single yellow bat in flight below the mouth rim
9 3/4in. (24.7 cm.) high

Provenance

Previously sold at Sotheby's London, 10 May 1988, lot 461

Literature

C. Brown and D. Rabiner, Clear as Crystal, Red as Flame, China Institute in America, New York, 1990, no. 56
C.F. Shangraw and C. Brown, A Chorus of Colors: Chinese Glass from Three American Collections, Asian Art Museum of San Francisco, 1995, no. 78, and illustrated front cover

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Lot Essay

The shape and style of decoration of the present vase is similar to one illustrated by C. Brown and D. Rabiner, The Robert H. Clague Collection: Chinese Glass of the Qing Dynasty, 1644-1911, Phoenix Art Museum, 1987, no. 26, which is decorated in mustard yellow and red carved overlay with chilong chasing flaming pearls reserved against the opalescent and striated opaque white ground.

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