TWO SMALL CARVED OPAQUE LEMON-YELLOW GLASS FACETTED BOTTLE VASES

QING DYNASTY, 18TH/19TH CENTURY

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TWO SMALL CARVED OPAQUE LEMON-YELLOW GLASS FACETTED BOTTLE VASES
QING DYNASTY, 18TH/19TH CENTURY
Each carved with ten concave facets rising from the foot of conforming outline and continuing up the tall neck, incised allover with 'cracked ice' pattern incorporating prunus blossoms around the body, one with a Yongzheng four-character mark incised within a square, the other similarly incised Qianlong four-character mark
5 7/8 in. (15.1 and 15 cm.) high (2)

Provenance

Previously sold at Sotheby's New York, 11-12 April 1990, lot 193

Literature

C.F. Shangraw, "Reflections on the Qing Imperial Glasshouse (1696-1911)", The George and Mary Bloch Collection of Chinese Snuff Bottles, Hong Kong, 1994, p. 48, fig. 3
C.F. Shangraw and C. Brown, A Chorus of Colors: Chinese Glass from Three American Collections, Asian Art Museum of San Francisco, 1995, nos. 26 and 27

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Lot Essay

The facetted bottle shape of these two vases appears to have been popular from the Yongzheng period onward. It was made in both transparent and opaque glass, and in different colours. Two opaque yellow vases of similar shape, one with a Yongzheng mark and one with a Qianlong mark, in the Andrew K.F. Lee Collection, are illustrated in Elegance and Radiance, The Art Museum, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, 2000, nos. 15 and 18, respectively. The unusual feature of the two present vases is the carved decoration of prunus and 'cracked ice', a pattern seen on blue and white porcelain of Kangxi date.

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