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A FOUR-COLOUR OVERLAY 清乾隆
GLASS ‘GRAPE’ BOTTLE VASE 雪霏地套四色葡萄袖珍長頸瓶

QING DYNASTY, QIANLONG
PERIOD

with a compressed globular body surmounted by a tall
cylindrical neck, carved through the single layer of green,
yellow, red and green with a scene of a squirrel beneath
scrolling vines issuing furled leaves and clusters of grapes, all
between a green band encircling the mouth-rim and another
forming the short foot
9.6 cm, 3¾ in.
HK$ 60,000-80,000
US$ 7,700-10,300
Four-colour overlay glass bottles are much rarer than the
more frequently found snuff bottles decorated in the same
technique. For a group of similarly decorated four-colour
overlay glass snuff bottles in the National Palace Museum,
Taipei, see the exhibition Limpid Radiance. A Special
Exhibition of Glass Artifacts from the National Palace Museum
Collection, Taipei, 2016, cat. nos. 112-4.

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