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

Glass dishes of this shape appear to have been made in various colours, in either transparent or opaque glass. A similar transparent blue glass dish of 18th century date is illustrated by C. Brown and D. Rabiner, The Robert H. Clague Collection: Chinese Glass of the Qing Dynasty, 1644-1911, Phoenix Art Museum, 1987, no. 8. See, also, a pair of transparent red glass dishes, with Qianlong marks, no. 57. An opaque yellow glass dish with inscribed Qianlong 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, no. 38. Another opaque yellow and a translucent amber dish in the Andrew K.F. Lee Collection, both with Qianlong marks, are illustrated in Elegance and Radiance, The Art Museum, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, 2000, nos. 27 and 26, respectively.