CHINE, DYNASTIE QING, MARQUE A QUATRE CARACTERES INCISEE ET EPOQUE QIANLONG (1736-1795)

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VASE BOUTEILLE OCTOGONAL IMPERIAL EN VERRE TRANSLUCIDE VERT OLIVE
CHINE, DYNASTIE QING, MARQUE A QUATRE CARACTERES INCISEE ET EPOQUE QIANLONG (1736-1795)
La panse du vase repose sur un haut pied à pans coupés. Ces pans se continuent le long du corps et du col formant ainsi huit côtés facetés.
Hauteur: 12,3 cm. (4 7/8 in.)

Provenance

P.C. Lu & Sons.
Spink & Son Ltd., London, December 1989.
Collection of Walter and Phyllis Shorenstein.
Christie's, Hong Kong, Luminous Colours: Treasures from the Shorenstein Collection, 1 December 2010, lot 2923.

Literature

C.F. Shangraw, Reflections on the Qing Imperial Glasshouse (1696-1911), in The George and Mary Bloch Collection of Chinese Snuff Bottles, Hong Kong, 1994, p. 47, fig. 2.

Exhibited

Chinese Jewellery and Glass, Spink & Son Ltd., London, 6-20 December 1989, no. 143.

Special notice

Additional costs of 5.5% including tax of the auction price will be taken in addition to the usual costs charged to the buyer. These additional costs are likely to be reimbursed to the buyer on presentation of proof of export of the batch outside the Union European within the legal deadlines (See the "VAT" section of Terms of sale)

Further details

AN IMPERIAL TRANSPARENT OLIVE-GREEN GLASS OCTAGONAL BOTTLE VASE
CHINA, QING DYNASTY, QIANLONG INCISED FOUR-CHARACTER MARK AND OF THE PERIOD (1736-1795)

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Lot Essay

In the archival records, the unusual colour of the present vase is known as "transparent tea yellow". This shape of vase was being made as early as the Yongzheng period, and a transparent blue glass example with an engraved Yongzheng four-character mark in the collection of the Palace Museum, Beijing, is illustrated by Zhang Rong (ed.), Luster of Autumn Water - Glass of the Qing Imperial Workshop, Forbidden City Publishing House, 2005, p.124, no. 6. Also illustrated are two opaque glass examples of this attractive shape, both with Qianlong marks - one turquoise, no. 22, the other blue, no. 23.

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