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A YELLOW GLASS ‘LOTUS 清十八世紀 黃料荷葉鴛鴦小洗
LEAF’ BRUSH WASHER

QING DYNASTY, 18TH
CENTURY

skilfully formed as a lotus leaf with furled edges forming a
floral outline, the short foot of the vessel skilfully rendered in
the form of curling stems, the stems further extending across
the exterior and issuing slender leaves and a lotus bud, the
interior carved with a pair of birds, possibly egrets, with their
beaks endearingly conjoined, the glass of a translucent bright
lemon-yellow colour
10 cm, 3⅞ in.

HK$ 160,000-180,000
US$ 20,500-23,100
Another rare yellow glass brush washer from the collection
of Alan Feen, of closely related lotus-leaf form but carved
with crabs, illustrated in The Minor Arts of China IV, Spink &
Son Ltd., 1989, p. 86, fig. 111, and front cover, and in Claudia
Brown and Donald Rabiner, Clear As Crystal, Red As Flame:
Later Chinese Glass, China House Gallery, China Institute in
America, New York, 1990, cat. no. 42, was sold at Bonhams
Hong Kong, 24th November 2010, lot 207.

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