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924 decorated in a style imitating cloisonné enamels
A VERY RARE IMPERIAL OPAQUE TURQUOISE- and then painted as if tied around the widest point
GREEN GLASS COMPRESSED GLOBULAR VASE with a pink scarf bearing a darker pink pattern, (see
QIANLONG FOUR-CHARACTER WHEEL-CUT MARK IN Kangxi Yongzheng Qianlong - Qing Porcelain from
A DOUBLE SQUARE AND OF THE PERIOD (1736-1795) the Palace Museum Collection, Hong Kong, 1989, p.
359, no. 40.
The vase is of compressed globular form with
(mark) short neck and fared rim, and is carved as if A cloisonné enamel example made in imitation of a
wrapped in a diaper-patterned cloth tied in patterned sash tied around two conjoined Qianlong
a bow on one side. The glass is of greenish- vessels in the Palace Museum, Beijing, is illustrated in
turquoise tone with some darker areas around The Complete Collection of Treasures of the Palace
the rim and foot. Museum - 43 - Metal-bodied Enamel Ware, Hong
6 in. (15.2 cm) high Kong, 2002, p. 101, no. 98.
$80,000-120,000 This decorative technique seems to have frst become
popular in the reign of the Yongzheng Emperor,
PROVENANCE: and continued into the Qialong period. It is very
rare, however, to fnd an example with such a
Christie’s London, 6 November 2007, lot 62. motif in glass, though examples can be found in
Property from the Lai Family Collection. monochrome wares, such as the white gu-shaped
vessel in the Palace Museum, Beijing, (illustrated in
The decoration on this vase incorporates the The Complete Collection of Treasures of the Palace
depiction of a textile tied around a vessel, which was Museum - 37 - Monochrome Porcelain, Hong Kong,
a popular motif on both metal-bodied and porcelain 1999, p. 128, no. 117). There are also variants in
vases in the 18th century. A Qianlong enameled which the vessel appears to be tied up with cord,
porcelain vase with a design of blossoming prunus either with a simple tie, like the Yongzheng celadon
branches, from the Grandidier Collection, now in the vase in the Baur Collection, Sekai toji zenshu - 15
Musée Guimet, has been painted as if tied with an - Qing, Tokyo, 1983, p. 80, no. 88 or in a net-like
elaborately knotted scarf in golden yellow patterned design such as that on the Qianlong celadon jar
with carmine and is illustrated in The World’s Great in the Palace Museum (illustrated in The Complete
Collections - Oriental Ceramics, Vol. 7, Musée Collection of Treasures of the Palace Museum - 37 -
Guimet, Paris, Tokyo/New York/San Francisco, 1981, Monochrome Porcelain, op. cit., p. 155, no. 140).
no. 189. Another enameled porcelain vase in the
collection of the Palace Museum, Beijing, has been 清乾隆 松石綠玻璃包袱紋瓶
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(reverse)
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