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A ‘realgar’ glass compressed globular brushwasher
18th century 368
Rising from a short circular hollow foot, the rounded sides tapering A blue aventurine glass ‘dragon’ tripod incense burner and cover
towards an inverted mouth, the interior and exterior undecorated 18th century
and showing natural swirling natural inclusions in rich amber tone in The shimmering mineral finely worked in the form of a censer, on three
imitation of realgar. feet each issuing from the mouth of a mythical beast head, the waisted
13.8cm diam. rim rising to a lipped mouth flanked by a pair of mythical beast heads,
HK$60,000 - 80,000 the domed cover with four ram heads at the compass points, further
US$7,700 - 10,000 surmounted by a coiled deeply-hollowed recumbent dragon forming the
knop. 14.7cm high. (2).
十八世紀 仿雄黃玻璃筆洗 HK$50,000 - 80,000
US$6,500 - 10,000
Provenance 來源：
Lillyman collection, California 十八世紀 仿青金石玻璃龍鈕蓋爐
Although somewhat simple in depiction, the current lot shows the Compare a related pomegranate-shaped water coupe worked from
extraordinary manner in which the glass-blowing has been controlled. aventurine glass in the Qing court collection, currently housed within the
Such vessels would have been crafted by blowing molten glass into a Palace Museum, Beijing, illustrated in Small Refined articles of the Study.
mould, forming the random and spontaneous swirling glass patterns. The Complete Collection of Treasures of the Palace Museum, Shanghai,
The colour is also manipulated to great effect, achieved by red and 2009, p.210, no.202.
yellow glass merging to form a realgar-like effect.
Compare an almost identical yellow glass brushwasher from the Alan E.
Feen Collection, illustrated in A Chorus of Colors, Asian Art Museum of
San Francisco, 1995, pp.90-91, no.62, subsequently sold in these rooms,
24 November 2010, lot 205.
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