AN UNUSUAL THREE-COLOUR GLASS OVERLAY BOTTLE VASE

QING DYNASTY, 18TH/19TH CENTURY

Details

AN UNUSUAL THREE-COLOUR GLASS OVERLAY BOTTLE VASE
QING DYNASTY, 18TH/19TH CENTURY
The opaque ochre body swirled with translucent striations and applied with overlays in transparent red and blue carved as fish and water plants, the apocryphal Qianlong reign mark wheel-engraved on the slightly recessed base
7 in. (17.8 cm.) high

Provenance

Oriental Art Gallery, London, May 1994

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. 74

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Lot Essay

Compare the bottle vase of similar size, also with an ochre ground, and decorated in blue and red overlay, but with chilong rather than fish, dated to the 18th century, illustrated in Chinese Jewellery and Glass, Spink & Son Ltd., London, December 1989, p. 101, no. 171.

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