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PROPERTY FROM AN ENGLISH PRIVATE COLLECTION
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               A VERY RARE IMPERIAL SMALL RUBY-RED OVERLAY WHITE
               GLASS ‘MALLOW FLOWER’ BOTTLE VASE
               QIANLONG INCISED SIX-CHARACTER MARK IN A LINE AND OF THE PERIOD (1736-1795)
               The vase, with a globular body, is surmounted by a tall cylindrical neck carved with
               upright plantain leaves below a band of embossed curls and bosses. The exterior is skilfully
               carved through the red layer to the opaque white ground to decorate a frieze of two
               flowering mallow blooms borne on undulating stems issuing curling furled leaves. All is
               supported on a short splayed foot and the character sui, ‘year’, is incised on the flat base
               below the incised reign mark.
               4 º in. (10.8 cm.) high
               HK$200,000-300,000                               US$26,000-38,000

               PROVENANCE
               Sold at Corkhill and Job, Birkenhead, England, 30-31 January 1956, lot 712

               清乾隆   涅白地套紅料長頸小瓶   「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712號




















































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