AN UNUSUAL AMETHYST GLASS BOWL FOR TIBETAN BUTTER TEA

18TH/19TH CENTURY

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AN UNUSUAL AMETHYST GLASS BOWL FOR TIBETAN BUTTER TEA
18TH/19TH CENTURY
The bowl has a compressed globular body and a flared rim, and is raised on a flat base carved with a circular depression in the center. Together with a Tibetan copper carrying case of conforming shape which has two angular loops on the sides and a hinged cover secured on one side with a pin.
Bowl 5 1/8 in. (13 cm.) diam. (2)

Provenance

Acquired October 1994.
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. 65, no. 37.

Exhibited

Asian Art Museum of San Francisco, A Chorus of Colors: Chinese Glass from Three American Collections, 5 December 1995 - 25 February 1996, no. 37.
On loan: Los Angeles County Museum of Art, January 1998 - January 1999.

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Lot Essay

Compare the similarly shaped opaque, yellow glass bowl for Tibetan butter tea in the collection of the Asian Art Museum of San Francisco, illustrated by C. Brown and D. Rabiner in Clear as Crystal, Red as Flame, China Institute in America, New York, 1990, p. 74, no. 38, where it is dated 18th century.

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