Lot Essay
A vase with similar decoration and coloring, but with a longer cylindrical neck and a trumpet-shaped mouth, is in the Bristol Museums, Galleries & Archives, Bristol, England, object id:N4633.
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18TH/19TH CENTURY
Details
A SMALL MOTTLED PINK GLASS VASE
18TH/19TH CENTURY
The vase of pear form is raised on a flat foot, and has a pair of taotie masks flanking the neck. The exterior is finely mottled in reddish-pink in contrast to the pinkish-white interior.
2 7/8 in. (7.4 cm.) high, box
18TH/19TH CENTURY
The vase of pear form is raised on a flat foot, and has a pair of taotie masks flanking the neck. The exterior is finely mottled in reddish-pink in contrast to the pinkish-white interior.
2 7/8 in. (7.4 cm.) high, box
Provenance
Dorothea Esty, Rancho Bernardo, California, 27 August 1980.
Barney and Emma Dagan Collection, Los Angeles, California.
Barney and Emma Dagan Collection, Los Angeles, California.
Literature
C.F. Shangraw and C. Brown, A Chorus of Colors: Chinese Glass from Three American Collections, Asian Art Museum of San Francisco, 1995, p. 57, no. 29.
Exhibited
Asian Art Museum of San Francisco, A Chorus of Colors: Chinese Glass from Three American Collections, 5 December 1995 - 25 February 1996, no. 29.
On loan: Los Angeles County Museum of Art, January 1998 - January 1999.
On loan: Los Angeles County Museum of Art, January 1998 - January 1999.
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