QIANLONG PERIOD (1736-1795)

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A TRANSLUCENT BLUE GLASS MALLET VASE
QIANLONG PERIOD (1736-1795)
With a dome-shaped body and a cylindrical neck rising to a lipped rim, with recessed base carved with a four-character Qianlong mark, the glass of sapphire-blue color
7½ in. (19.1 cm.) high

Provenance

Circe Gallery, St. Thomas, early 1980s.

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Lot Essay

Glass vases of this mallet shape were well known during the Qianlong period. See, for example, a Qianlong-marked opaque glass vase of closely related size (19.5 cm.), illustrated in Luster of Autumn Water: Glass of the Imperial Qing Workshop, Beijing, 2005, pp. 160-61, no. 29.

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