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A RARE IMPERIAL GREEN Striking for its brilliant emerald green colour, included in the exhibition Elegance and Radiance.
OCTAGONAL GLASS BOTTLE VASE vases of this attractive faceted shape and with Grandeur in Qing Glass. The Andrew K.F. Lee
WHEEL CUT MARK AND PERIOD OF Qianlong marks within a square were probably Collection, Art Museum, The Chinese University
QIANLONG made in the first twenty years of the Qianlong of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, cat. no. 21, together
reign, when production of glass wares at the with four further vases of various colours, cat.
of octagonal pear-shaped form, the compressed imperial court reached a peak in both quality nos 17-21; and a pair of unpublished vases is in
spherical body supported on a straight foot, and quantity. According to archival records, two the Musée Guimet, Paris.
elegantly curving to the tall, slightly tapered neck, glass workshops coexisted in the eighteenth
the glass of an even translucent emerald-green century; the first, known as the bolichang (glass Vases of this form and size but of difference
tone, the recessed base with a four-character factory), located at Canchikou in Beijing, had colours include a turquoise example, in the
wheel cut reign mark within a square been established in the 35th year of the Kangxi Palace Museum, Beijing, illustrated in Zhang
14.7 cm, 5¾ in. Emperor’s reign (equivalent to 1696), while the Rong, Luster of Autumn Water. Glass of the Qing
second was established during the Yongzheng Imperial Workshop, Beijing, 2004, pl. 22; a yellow
PROVENANCE reign and located within Yuanmingyuan. Both version, from the collection of Rudolph Scaeffer,
Bonhams Hong Kong, 28th May 2010, lot 205. production centres enjoyed strong imperial in the Asian Art Museum of San Francisco,
patronage which greatly increased the status included in the exhibition Clear As Crystal, Red
HK$ 400,000-600,000 of this material, although the latter is believed as Flame, China House Gallery, New York, 1990,
US$ 51,500-77,000 to have created the finest vessels (see Peter cat. no. 39; and a realgar glass vase, from the
Y.K. Lam, ‘The Glasshouse of the Qing Imperial collection of Walter and Phyllis Shorenstein,
清乾隆 御製綠料八方長頸瓶 Household Department’, Elegance and Radiance. exhibited in A Chorus of Colours. Chinese Glass
《乾隆年製》款 Grandeur in Qing Glass. The Andrew K.F. Lee from Three American Collections, Asian Art
Collection, Art Museum, The Chinese University Museum of San Francisco, San Francisco, 1995,
來源： of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, 2000, p. 49). cat. no. 52, and sold at Christie’s Hong Kong, 1st
香港邦瀚斯2010年5月28日，編號205 December 2010, lot 2952.
Translucent green vases of this type are rare; one
was sold at Christie’s Hong Kong, 3rd November The elegant form of this vase first appeared in the
1998, lot 1073; a slightly taller example was Yongzheng reign; a blue vase of this form with
included in the exhibition Early Chinese Glass, Yongzheng mark and of the period is illustrated
Art Museum, The Chinese University of Hong in Zhang Rong, op. cit., pl. 6; and another was
Kong, Hong Kong, 2001, cat. no. 223; a third was included in Elegance and Radiance, op. cit., cat.
no. 16, together with a yellow example, cat. no. 15.
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