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A RARE AVENTURINE-SPLASHED 清嘉慶 天藍料灑金星長頸膽瓶
TURQUOISE GLASS BOTTLE VASE 《嘉慶年製》款
WHEEL CUT MARK AND PERIOD
OF JIAQING

the slender ovoid body rising from a splayed
foot to a tall cylindrical neck, gently tapering
to a sharply cut straight mouth, the glass of an
opaque pale turquoise tone occasionally suffused
with darker streaks simulating the mineral,
liberally splashed with shimmering gilt splashes,
the recessed base with a four-character reign
mark within a double square
24.7 cm, 9¾ in.

HK$ 100,000-150,000
US$ 12,800-19,200

Aventurine glass, invented in Murano, was
imported into China from the seventeenth
century and much admired. By 1741, the Jesuit
missionary Pierre Nicolas d’Incarville is recorded
as having successfully created it at the Palace
Workshops in the Forbidden City. Glass snuff
bottles decorated with splashes of aventurine
are relatively common, but it is extremely rare
to find an Imperial reign-marked glass vase with
such decoration. For a white glass flowerpot
with similar splashes of aventurine in the Palace
Museum, Beijing, see Zhang Rong, Lustre
of Autumn Water. Glass of the Qing Imperial
Workshop, Beijing, 2005, pl. 155.

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