A LARGE AMETHYST GLASS LOBED DISH

18TH/19TH CENTURY

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A LARGE AMETHYST GLASS LOBED DISH
18TH/19TH CENTURY
The shallow dish is carved with twelve lobes that radiate from the circuler center to the lobed rim. The semi-transparent glass is of deep purple color.
11¾ in. (29.8 cm.) diam., stand

Provenance

Christie's New York, 3 December 1992, lot 8.

Lot Essay

A smaller lobed glass dish of amethyst color, with lobed and barbed rim, is illustrated in Elegance and Radiance: grandeur in Qing glass, the Andrew K.F. Lee Collection, Hong Kong: Art Museum, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, 2000, p. 141, no. 29.

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