CHINE, DYNASTIE MING, XVEME-XVIEME SIECLE

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RARE COUPE HEXAGONALE EN VERRE TRANSLUCIDE VERT PALE
CHINE, DYNASTIE MING, XVEME-XVIEME SIECLE
Réalisée à l'imitation du jade, elle repose sur un pied hexagonal et est munie de deux anses découpées en forme de dragon aux yeux incisés. La panse facetée est décorée à l'extérieur de caractères shou incisés. Le verre translucide est d'une teinte vert pâle et présente d'anciennes traces de dépôt de matière.
Largeur: 12 cm. (4 3⁄4 in.)

Provenance

The Cunliffe Collection, GL2, by repute.
Collection of Walter and Phyllis Shorenstein.
Christie's Hong Kong, Luminous Colours: Treasures from the Shorenstein Collection, 1 December 2010, lot 2911.

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. 42, no. 16.

Special notice

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Further details

A RARE TRANSLUCENT PALE GREENISH-WHITE GLASS TWO-HANDLED HEXAGONAL CUP
CHINA, MING DYNASTY, 15TH-16TH CENTURY

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Lot Essay

An imitation jade glass cup with animal-head handles in the Ina and Sandford Gadient Collection is illustrated in Treasures of Chinese Glass Work Shops, Asiantiques, Florida, 1997, p21, no.6. Two further imitation jade cups of square form and slightly later in date from the Robert H Clague Collection are illustrated in Chinese Glass of the Qing Dynasty, Phoenix Art Museum, 1987, p.62, no. 74.

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