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PROPERTY FROM A PRINCELY COLLECTION
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AN IMPERIAL OPAQUE TURQUOISE GLASS TRIPOD CENSER
QIANLONG INCISED FOUR-CHARACTER MARK WITHIN A DOUBLE SQUARE AND OF THE
PERIOD (1736-1795)
The well-formed compressed body is raised on three short conical legs and flanked by a pair of curved
loop-handles rising from the rim. The glass is of a rich turquoise colour.
4Ω in. (11.5 cm.) wide
£50,000-80,000 US$64,000-100,000
€55,000-88,000
PROVENANCE:
Collection of Walter and Phyllis Shorenstein.
Christie's Hong Kong, Luminous Colours: Treasures from the Shorenstein Collection, 1 December 2010, lot
2919
Property from a Princely Collection.
LITERATURE:
C.F. Shangraw and C. Brown, A Chorus of Colors: Chinese Glass from Three American Collections, Asian
Art Museum of San Francisco, 1996, no. 49.
The shape of this censer is based on bronze prototypes of the early Ming dynasty. Other glass censers
of this shape, but of different colour, have also been published. One in the collection of the Palace
Museum, of opaque pink colour, still fitted with its metal liner, is illustrated in Zhongguo meishu quanji -
Gongyi meishu bian, 10, Beijing, 1987, pl. 254. Two others, of opaque yellow and opaque bluish-turquoise
colour, in the Andrew K.F. Lee Collection, are illustrated in Elegance and Radiance, The Art Museum, The
Chinese University of Hong Kong, 2000, pp. 182-85, nos. 54 and 55, respectively.

貴族私人珍藏
清乾隆 御製松綠料乳足爐 雙方框「乾隆年製」楷書刻款
來源:
舒思深伉儷舊藏
香港佳士得 《妙色營然一舒思深伉儷珍藏宮廷御製藝術精品》 2010年12月1日, 拍品2919號
出版:
C.F. Shangraw 及C. Brown,《A Chorus of Colors: Chinese Glass from Three American Collections》舊金山, 亞洲藝術博物館,
,
編號49.

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