A RARE SMALL BEIJING GLASS FAMILLE ROSE ANBAXIAN VASE

QIANLONG FOUR-CHARACTER IRON-RED MARK AND OF THE PERIOD (1736-1795)

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A RARE SMALL BEIJING GLASS FAMILLE ROSE ANBAXIAN VASE
QIANLONG FOUR-CHARACTER IRON-RED MARK AND OF THE PERIOD (1736-1795)
The vase is delicately enamelled on the wide shoulder with a band formed by plantain leaves alternating with ruyi cloud heads, each attached to an elaborate network of bejewelled chains, suspending tassels and bats or chimes hanging beribboned eight Daoist emblems including a double-gourd, fish drum, fan, sword, lotus bloom, a pair of castanets, a basket of flowers and flute, all above a band of plantain above the short splayed foot, the base bearing the mark in standard script, kaishu, against an opaque white tone
3 3/8 in. (8.5 cm.) high

来源

Madame Nelly Loup-Borel, Geneva, early 20th century, and thence by descent to the present owner

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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.