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20. AN IMPERIAL TURQUOISE-BLUE GL ASS ‘ TIANQIU PING ’ VASE
Mark and Period of Qianlong (1736-1795)

with thick walls, the globular body raised on a slightly splayed ring foot and surmounted by a tall
cylindrical neck, the opaque bright turquoise-blue glass smoothly polished all over, the four
character reign mark of Qianlong within a square wheel-cut on the recessed base.

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Height 8 ⁄8 inches (22 cm)
Glass vases in this distinctive shape were produced in the Qing imperial workshops in various colors in both transparent
and opaque glass. Several examples in different colors, all inscribed with imperial reign marks, in the collection of Andrew
K. F. Lee are illustrated in the catalogue of the exhibition of the Lee Collection, Elegance and Radiance: Grandeur in Qing
Glass, The Art Museum, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, 2000, pp. 98-110, nos. 8-14.
A very similar opaque turquoise-blue glass vase of this shape from the collection of Robert H. Clague is illustrated by Brown
and Rabiner, Chinese Glass of the Qing Dynasty, 1644-1911, Phoenix, 1987, pp. 36-37, no. 35, where the authors cite a similar
opaque turquoise glass vase with a Yongzheng reign mark in the British Museum illustrated by Harden, Masterpieces of
Glass: a Selection, London, 1968, fig. 169.

清乾隆 御製天藍料天球瓶 高 22 厘米
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