QIANLONG INCISED SIX-CHARACTER MARK IN A LINE AND OF THE PERIOD (1736-1795)

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A VERY RARE IMPERIAL RUBY-RED OVERLAY WHITE GLASS CENSER
QIANLONG INCISED SIX-CHARACTER MARK IN A LINE AND OF THE PERIOD (1736-1795)
The censer is carved through the red overlay with a continuous mallow scroll below a band of lappets at the shoulders. All is raised on three red glass legs. The reign mark is incised on the base in a horizontal line above the character sui, ‘year’.
2 ¾ in. (6.8 cm.) high

Provenance

Sold at Corkhill and Job, Birkenhead, England, 30-31 January 1956, lot 711

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Lot Essay

Compare a similar example, also, with an incised reign mark in a horizontal line above the character he, river, from the Palace Museum, Beijing, which is illustrated in Luster of Autumn Water: Glass of the Qing Imperial Workshop, Beijing, 2005, p. 207.

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