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Lot Essay
The present lot is unique in its form and decoration among the few Qianlong-marked examples. Two small glass vases in the collection of the Beijing Palace Museum, are illustrated by Zhang Rong (ed), Luster of Autumn Water Glass of Qing Imperial Workshop, Beijing, 2005, pp. 250-251, pl. 84 (8.5 cm. high); and pp. 252-253, no. 85 (9.9 cm. high). In an essay by Zhang Rong, 'Qing in the Imperial Workshops of the Qing Court', the author mentioned that single-coloured and overlay glass wares were the most prevalent types produced in the Imperial workshops during the Qianlong period. It appears that very few enamelled examples commissioned and of these only 20 pieces remain in the Beijing Palace Museum Collection, op. cit., pp. 19-20.
Cf., a small bottle vase decorated with similar bejewelled chains and with a guyuexuan mark, in the Robert H. Clague Collection, illustrated in Chinese Glass of the Qing Dynasty, 1644-1911, Phoenix Art Museum, 1987, no. 50.
This vase was valued at 48 Swiss francs in an inventory of Madame Loup-Borel's collection of porcelains, cloisonne and curios in Geneva, dated 23 August 1927.
Cf., a small bottle vase decorated with similar bejewelled chains and with a guyuexuan mark, in the Robert H. Clague Collection, illustrated in Chinese Glass of the Qing Dynasty, 1644-1911, Phoenix Art Museum, 1987, no. 50.
This vase was valued at 48 Swiss francs in an inventory of Madame Loup-Borel's collection of porcelains, cloisonne and curios in Geneva, dated 23 August 1927.