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A SKY-BLUE GLASS CIRCULAR INK BOX AND COVER
Wheel-engraved Qianlong four-character mark in a square and of the
period, probably Beijing Palace Workshops
The circular vessel with flat top and base and cylindrical sides, the
glass of a rare sky-blue tone, a simple ridge cut to the box to fit
snuggly with the cover.
2 7/16in (6.3cm) diam； 1 3/8in (3.5cm) high

$12,000 - 15,000
透藍料圓盒 乾隆四字方框款 或爲北京宮廷造

Provenance
Chinese Porcelain Company, New York, mid 1990’s

出處：
紐約 Chinese Porcelain Company，1990 年代中期

A similarly-toned transparent cobalt-blue glass dish bearing a wheel-
cut Qianlong seal mark was sold at Christie’s, Hong Kong, ‘Luminous
Colours: Treasures from the Shorenstein Collection’ 1 December
2010, lot 2938.

Other transparent blue glass vessels are illustrated in the exhibition
catalogue, Elegance and Radiance, The Art Museum, The Chinese
University of Hong Kong, 2000, pp. 142-43 and p.p.158-59, nos. 30
and 42 respectively and a later opaque white glass cylindrical box
and cover is also illustrated, pp.246-47, no. 87.

Another transparent blue glass vessel, (dish) dated to the eighteenth
century is illustrated by C. Brown and D. Rabiner, The Robert H.
Clague Collection: Chinese Glass of the Qing Dynasty, 1644-1911,
Phoenix Art Museum, 1987, no. 8.

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