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PROPERTY FROM A WEST COAST COLLECTION
1796
A TRANSLUCENT SAPPHIRE-BLUE GLASS
'OLIVE'-SHAPED VASE, GANLANPING
JIAQING FOUR-CHARACTER WHEEL-CUT MARK
WITHIN A SQUARE AND OF THE PERIOD (1796-1820)
The vase has a bulbous mid-section and then tapers towards
the slightly spreading foot and the neck. The glass is of
sapphire-blue color.
7º in. (18.3 cm.) high
$6,000-8,000

PROVENANCE:
Alvin Lo, Hong Kong, 2000.
Glass vases of this unusual shape, referred to either
as 'olive' or 'spindle' shape, are quite rare. Two similar
Qianlong-marked examples in opaque turquoise glass have
been published: one in the Andrew K. F. Lee Collection
is illustrated in Elegance and Radiance: Grandeur in Qing
Glass, The Art Museum, The Chinese University of Hong
Kong, 2000, pp. 170-71, no. 48; the other is illustrated
by Zhang Rong in Luster of Autumn Water: Glass of the
Imperial Workshop, Bejing, 2005, pp. 154-55, no. 24.
Another Qianlong-marked, opaque turquoise glass example
from the collection of Hugh W. Greenberg, was sold at
Christie's New York, 18-19 September 2014, lot 1140. This
elegant shape was inspired by porcelain vases of the earlier
Yongzheng period.

清嘉慶 寶石藍玻璃橄欖瓶 方框四字楷書刻款

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