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PROPERTY FROM AN ENGLISH PRIVATE COLLECTION
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A VERY RARE IMPERIAL RUBY-RED OVERLAY WHITE GLASS
CENSER
QIANLONG INCISED SIX-CHARACTER MARK IN A LINE AND OF THE PERIOD (1736-1795)
The censer is carved through the red overlay with a continuous mallow scroll below a
band of lappets at the shoulders. All is raised on three red glass legs. The reign mark is
incised on the base in a horizontal line above the character sui, ‘year’.
2 æ in. (6.8 cm.) high
HK$500,000-700,000 US$64,000-90,000

PROVENANCE
Sold at Corkhill and Job, Birkenhead, England, 30-31 January 1956, lot 711
Compare a similar example, also, with an incised reign mark in a horizontal line above the
character he, river, from the Palace Museum, Beijing, which is illustrated in Luster of Autumn
Water: Glass of the Qing Imperial Workshop, Beijing, 2005, p. 207.

清乾隆 涅白地套紅料三足雙耳爐 「大清乾隆年製」、「歲」楷書刻款

來源
英國伯肯赫德，1956年1月30-31日，拍品711號

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