A SMALL MULTI-COLOUR OVERLAY OPAQUE GREEN GLASS TRIPOD JAR

QIANLONG PERIOD (1736-1795)

Details

A SMALL MULTI-COLOUR OVERLAY OPAQUE GREEN GLASS TRIPOD JAR
QIANLONG PERIOD (1736-1795)
The globular body raised on three conical supports, decorated with four chilong carved in relief from white overlay shown amidst flaming pearls and clouds carved from the deep rose-pink overlay, all in contrast to the striated green body
3 1/4 in. (8.2 cm.) high

Provenance

Previously sold at Sotheby's London, 10 May 1988, lot 476
Spink & Son, London, April 1989

Literature

C. Brown and D. Rabiner, Clear as Crystal, Red as Flame, China Intitute in America, New York, 1990, no. 58

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Lot Essay

A related tripod jar or incense burner, with thick translucent green body similarly decorated in white overlay with chilong separated by reddish-pink lingzhi, rather than the flaming pearls of the present vessel, dated to the first half of the 18th century, is 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. 22. See, also, the small ovoid vase with similar opaque green body and similar chilong and flaming pearls carved from white and reddish-pink overlay, inscribed with a Qianlong four-character mark, in the Andrew K.F. Lee Collection, illustrated in Elegance and Radiance, The Art Museum, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, 2000, no. 124.

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