AN IMPERIAL TRANSPARENT OLIVE-GREEN GLASS OCTAGONAL BOTTLE VASE

QIANLONG INCISED FOUR-CHARACTER MARK WITHIN A SQUARE AND OF THE PERIOD (1736-1795)

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AN IMPERIAL TRANSPARENT OLIVE-GREEN GLASS OCTAGONAL BOTTLE VASE
QIANLONG INCISED FOUR-CHARACTER MARK WITHIN A SQUARE AND OF THE PERIOD (1736-1795)
The somewhat spreading body raised on a tall foot and tapering towards the tall, gently tapering neck, all carved with eight slightly concave facets
4 7/8 in. (12.3 cm.) high

Provenance

P.C. Lu & Sons
Spink & Son Ltd., London, December 1989

Literature

C.F. Shangraw, "Reflections on the Qing Imperial Glasshouse (1696-1911)", 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

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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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