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PROPERTY FROM A PRIVATE WEST COAST COLLECTION
1292
A VERY RARE WHEEL-ENGRAVED TRANSLUCENT YELLOW The decoration on this bowl was created by wheel engraving, which refers
GLASS BOWL to the incising and roughening of the surface of the glass with a rotary tool.
QIANLONG FOUR-CHARACTER WHEEL-CUT MARK WITHIN A This technique was very popular in European glass and was popularized in
SQUARE AND OF THE PERIOD (1736-1795) China in the eighteenth century (see, C.F. Shangraw and C. Brown, A Chorus
of Colors: Chinese Glass from Three American Collections, Asian Art Museum
4¡ in. (11.1 cm.) diam. of San Francisco, 1995, p. 60). The technique may have been introduced to
Chinese glass craftsmen by the Jesuit missionaries working in the court at
$60,000-80,000 the time.

美४西岸私́珍藏 A transparent amber glass cup with wheel-engraved decoration from the
Walter and Phyllis Shorenstein Collection decorated with nearly identical
清̖隆ǎ茶色磨花玻璃壽⊅花卉紋盌ǎ方框ो字楷書ח款 rocks as those on the present bowl, is illustrated in ibid., no. 32., and was
later sold at Christie’s Hong Kong, 1 December 2010, lot 2916. (Fig. 1) See,
also, an amber glass cup engraved with a flowering tree and a butterfly, in
the collection of the Palace Museum, Beijing, illustrated by Zhang Rong (ed.),
Luster of Autumn Water - Glass of the Qing Imperial Workshop, Forbidden
City Publishing House, 2005, p. 284, no. 113, also with similarly rendered
wheel-engraved decoration as that on the present bowl.

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Fig. 1 A very rare imperial wheel-engraved translucent amber glass wine cup,
Qianlong engraved four-character mark within a square and of the period
(1736-1795), sold at Christie’s Hong Kong, 1 December 2010, lot 2916.

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方框Ǘ̖隆年製ǘ楷書ח款
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