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A WHITE-GROUND FIVE- 清乾隆 涅白地套五色料長頸瓶

COLOUR OVERLAY GLASS 《乾隆年製》款
‘CHILONG’ BOTTLE VASE 來源：

MARK AND PERIOD OF Liliane Fould-Springer（1916-2003年）及 Elie de
Rothschild（1917-2007年）收藏
QIANLONG

modelled with a compressed globular body tapering to a tall
tubular neck and resting on a short rounded foot, the exterior
of the body skilfully carved through the single layer of red,
pink, green, yellow and blue with a continuous scene of five
clambering chilong, each rendered in a different colour, four
around the lower body and the green one with its elongated
body extending around the neck of the vessel and grasping its
own tail in its mouth, all interspersed with green leaves below
a green band with pendent foliate lappets encircling the rim,
the yellow base overlaid with a layer of red around the foot and
centred with a four-character wheel-cut reign mark within a
square
20.6 cm, 8⅛ in.
PROVENANCE
Collection of Liliane Fould-Springer (1916-2003) and Elie de
Rothschild (1917-2007).

HK$ 800,000-1,000,000
US$ 102,000-128,000

This superb glass vase, so finely decorated with a multi-colour those on another glass vase and a reign-marked blue overlay
overlaid design of chilong and inscribed with a Qianlong glass vase in the Palace Museum, illustrated ibid. Clearly the
four-character mark, is extremely rare. The five chilong are current vase also emanated from the Palace Workshops.
beautifully picked out in red, pink, yellow and cobalt-blue and For examples of unmarked Qianlong period white-ground
green against an opaque white ground. multi-colour overlaid glass vases of similar decoration style,
A small number of Qianlong reign-marked overlaid glass vases see a vase decorated with chilong in the Suntory Museum of
is recorded in museum collections, but none of the exact same Art, catalogued as Qianlong/Jiaqing, illustrated in The Glass
style. A ruby-red ground glass vase decorated in turquoise blue the Galle Adored. Glass from the Qing Imperial Collection,
overlays with flowers and butterflies in the Palace Museum, Suntory Museum of Art, Tokyo, 2018, p. 104, cat. no. 78, a
Beijing is illustrated by Zhang Rong, Lustre of Autumn Water. vase carved with chilong from the collection of Professor
Glass of the Qing Imperial Workshop, Beijing, 2005, pl. 81. It P.H. and Mrs. T. Plesch, sold in our London rooms, 12th
shares the same Qianlong nianzhi four-character mark, so November 1979, lot 74 and a vase carved with flowers from
intricately wheel-cut within a double square. The same mark is the Shorenstein collection, illustrated in C.F. Shangraw and
also found on a small glass jar in the Palace Museum, Beijing, C. Brown, A Chorus of Colors: Chinese Glass from Three
illustrated ibid, pl. 79 overlaid with a pair of chilong in emerald American Collections, Asian Art Museum of San Francisco,
green against a rich cobalt-blue ground. Interestingly, the San Francisco, 1995, cat. no. 78, and on the front cover, and
border of stiff leaves at the neck on the current vase matches sold at Christie’s Hong Kong, 1st December 2010, lot 2940.

Mark

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