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PROPERTY FROM A WEST COAST COLLECTION
1795
A TRANSLUCENT GARNET-RED GLASS FACETED VASE Vases of this elegant shape, with the body and neck subtly fluted with
QIANLONG FOUR-CHARACTER WHEEL-CUT MARK WITHIN A eight slightly concave facets, dating from the Yongzheng period (1723-
SQUARE AND OF THE PERIOD (1736-1795) 1735) through the Guangxu period (1875-1908), both in transparent
and opaque glass, and in various colors, are represented in the
The well-hollowed, pear-shaped vase is cut with eight concave facets
and is supported on a similarly faceted foot. The glass is of deep Andrew K. F. Lee Collection and illustrated in Elegance and Radiance:
garnet-red color. Grandeur in Qing Glass, The Art Museum, The Chinese University of
Hong Kong, 2000, pp. 112-29, nos. 15-23. Two of the vases, nos. 19
5√ in. (15 cm.) high and 20, are of deep ruby-red color and have Qianlong marks. See,
also, the similar Qianlong-marked ruby-red vase from the Hugh W.
$10,000-15,000 Greenburg Collection sold at Christie's New York, 18-19 September
2014, lot 1138.
PROVENANCE:
Alvin Lo, Hong Kong, 1998.
清乾隆 石榴紅玻璃八棱長頸瓶 方框四字楷書刻款
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