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A RARE CARVED BLUE GLASS 清乾隆 藍料六喜長方洗
‘BIRD’ BRUSH WASHER 《乾隆年製》款

SEAL MARK AND PERIOD OF 來源：
QIANLONG 史博曼藝術藏品館，1990年
Alan E. Feen 收藏
of rectangular form, with straight sides rising to a broad
出版：
everted band, enclosing a lobed cartouche forming the rim of
Emily Byrne Curtis，〈Qing Imperial Glass: The Workshop on
the receptacle, surrounded by six birds depicted perched atop
Can Chi Kou〉，《Chinese Snuff Bottles in the Collection of
the wide rim, all supported on four short ruyi feet, the base
Mary and George Bloch》， 大英博物館，倫敦，1995年，頁
incised with a four-character seal mark within a double square
11.1 cm, 4⅜ in. xxii，圖3
PROVENANCE
A & J Speelman Ltd, 1990.
Collection of Alan E. Feen.

LITERATURE
Emily Byrne Curtis, ‘Qing Imperial Glass: The Workshop on
Can Chi Kou’, Chinese Snuff Bottles in the Collection of Mary
and George Bloch, British Museum, London, 1995, p. xxii, fig.
3.

HK$ 600,000-800,000
US$ 77,000-103,000
The form of the current brushwasher, boldly carved with
six birds perched around the rim of a rectangular basin,
is extremely rare, and no other example appears to be
published.
Blue glass vessels in a wide variety of shapes were popular
in the Qianlong period. For a Qianlong reign-marked blue
glass vessel in the Palace Museum, Beijing, of gu form and
constructed of similar thickly constructed bubble-suffused
glass, see Zhang Rong, Lustre of Autumn Water. Glass of the
Qing Imperial Workshop, Beijing, 2005, pl. 33. It is wheel-cut
with the more commonly found four-character regular script
mark, in contrast to the current brush washer, with its unusual
seal mark.
For another rare brush washer unusually incised with a
Qianlong six-character seal mark, see the purple glass brush
washer of rectangular form with chilong on all four sides, sold
in our London rooms 7th June 2000, lot 72, from the Sackville
collection, and again at Christie’s Hong Kong, 30th May 2005,
lot 1270. For a blue glass wall vase similarly incised with a
four-character seal mark in the Andrew Lee collection, see
Elegance and Radiance. Grandeur in Qing Glass. The Andrew
K.F. Lee Collection, Art Museum, The Chinese University of
Hong Kong, Hong Kong, 2000, pp. 174-5.

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