Lot 34
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A COBALT-BLUE GLASS FACETED BOTTLE VASE

Details
A COBALT-BLUE GLASS FACETED BOTTLE VASE
YONGZHENG SIX-CHARACTER INCISED MARK, 18TH CENTURY

Of deep blue tone, the body carved with fourteen facets as is the spreading, separately anealed foot and the thick-walled neck, flaring slightly outwards from the shoulder to the mouth
11¾in. (29.8cm.), box

Lot Essay

A Qianlong-marked blue glass vase of similar form, but slightly smaller, was included in the exhibition, A Chorus of Colors, Chinese Glass from Three American Collections, Asian Art Musuem of San Francisco, 1995, Catalogue, p. 76, no. 45