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A RARE SMALL RED-OVERLAY WHITE
GLASS DOUBLE-GOURD VASE

PROBABLY PALACE WORKSHOPS, BEIJING,
18TH CENTURY
The body is carved in relief through the ruby red
overlay to the opaque white ground with fve bats
(wufu) fying amidst trailing clouds on the lower
body and with shou symbols and further bats on
the upper body, all beneath key fret and inverted
lappets encircling the neck.
3√ in. (9.9 cm.) high

$6,000-8,000

The Qianlong Emperor appears to have had a
particular fascination with carved red-overlay
glass works; the frst entries in the Palace
Archives relating to glass in the frst year of the
Qianlong reign cite an order for two red-overlay
glass vases, one on an opaque white ground
(see Luster of Autumn Water - Glass of the Qing
Imperial Workshop, Beijing, 2005, p. 74).

Glass double-gourd shaped bottles of this size
and shape appear to be rare. A related red-overlay
glass double-gourd-shaped bottle, but decorated
with vines, in the Robert H. Clague Collection
is illustrated by C. Brown and D. Rabiner in The
Robert H. Clague Collection: Chinese Glass of the
Qing Dynasty 1644-1911, Phoenix Art Museum,
1987, p. 54, no. 62.
清十八世紀 白地套紅玻璃五福團壽紋葫蘆瓶

1050
A RARE YELLOW GLASS
POMEGRANATE-FORM WATER POT

IMPERIAL GLASSWORKS, BEIJING,
QIANLONG FOUR-CHARACTER WHEEL-CUT
MARK AND OF THE PERIOD (1736-1795)
The small waterpot has a globular body rising to
a short waisted neck below a fared mouth in the
form of fve sepals. The glass is of transparent
amber-yellow tone.
2¡ in. (6 cm.) high

$6,000-8,000

清乾隆 御製透明黃玻璃石榴尊 四字楷書刻款

1050 (mark)

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