Property from the Lillyman Collection
An unusual opaque pink glass vase
Qianlong mark and period
Its baluster body rising to a tapered long neck, supporting a conical form mouth, the side walls neatly carved in relief with four reserve panels framing lotus blossoms and scrolling leaves between a key-fret band at the shoulder and a border of vertical lappets surrounding a short circular foot, the neck decorated with linear geometric patterns, the slightly recessed base centered with the four-character mark within a square.
6in (15.3cm) high
Its baluster body rising to a tapered long neck, supporting a conical form mouth, the side walls neatly carved in relief with four reserve panels framing lotus blossoms and scrolling leaves between a key-fret band at the shoulder and a border of vertical lappets surrounding a short circular foot, the neck decorated with linear geometric patterns, the slightly recessed base centered with the four-character mark within a square.
6in (15.3cm) high
Sold for
US$ 6,250
inc. premium
Footnotes
- Compare to the two glass vases decorated in similar fashion, recorded and illustrated in A Chorus of Colors, Chinese Glass from Three American Collections, Asian Art Museum of San Francisco, 1995, plates 91, 92, pp.116-117; and another yellow glass vase from the Gadient Collection in this sale, lot 5195.
Another related example from the Beijing Palace Museum, a small baluster vase with a carved pea-green layer on a white core attributed to the Qianlong period, was published in Zhang Rong, Guang Ning Qiu Sui (Luster of Autumn Water": Glass of the Qing Imperial Workshop) (Beijing, 2005), cat. no. 73, pp. 234-5.
Auction Notices
- Please note that the dating on this lot should read Qianlong mark, 19th century
Category: Asian Art
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