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AN OPAQUE TURQUOISE GLASS BOTTLE VASE
Lot 1798 PROPERTY FROM A WEST COAST COLLECTION

AN OPAQUE TURQUOISE GLASS BOTTLE VASE

QIANLONG FOUR-CHARACTER INCISED MARK WITHIN A SQUARE AND POSSIBLY OF THE PERIOD

Closed25 September 2020

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AN OPAQUE TURQUOISE GLASS BOTTLE VASE
QIANLONG FOUR-CHARACTER INCISED MARK WITHIN A SQUARE AND POSSIBLY OF THE PERIOD
The bulbous body is raised on a spreading foot with a slightly recessed base and rises to a tall, cylindrical neck. The opaque glass is of even turquoise color.
8 ½ in. (21.5 cm.) high

Alvin Lo, Hong Kong, 1999.

Specialist note


Glass vases of this bottle shape, with Qianlong marks, were made in various colors, in both opaque and transparent glass. Several in the Andrew K. F. Lee Collection are illustrated in Elegance of Radiance: Grandeur in Qing Glass, The Art Museum, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, 2000, pp. 100-7, nos. 9-12. An opaque turquoise example in the Robert H. Clague Collection is illustrated by C. Brown and D. Rabiner in Chinese Glass of the Qing Dynasty, 1644-1911, pp. 36-37, no. 35.