A blue glass bowl Guangxu four-character wheel-cut mark and of the period
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A blue glass bowl
Guangxu four-character wheel-cut mark and of the period
The vessel plain and undecorated, the translucent glass of sapphire blue, rising from a slightly recessed foot, the flared sides extending upwards to a gently splayed mouthrim, the base wheel-cut with a four-character mark.
10.3cm diam.
Estimate:
HK$ 20,000 - 30,000
US$ 2,600 - 3,900
£1,600 - 2,500

Footnotes

  • Glass production after the Qianlong era, from Jiaqing to Xuantong periods was mainly focused on monochrome colours.

    For a Guangxu reign-marked turquoise green glass bowl in the Palace Museum, Beijing, see Luster of Autumn Water. Glass of the Qing Imperial Workshop, Beijing, 2005, p.362, pl.181. Compare also another Guangxu reign-marked royal-blue glass bowl from the Hope Danby collection, illustrated by S. Marchant & Son, Exhibition of Chinese Glass. The Hope Danby Collection, London, 1999, p.35, no.19.

    清光緒 藍色透明玻璃碗 「光緒年製」刻款

    碗為模製而成。敞口，弧腹，足底圓形凹入。通體透明藍色玻璃。碗外地中心陰刻單方框「光緒年製」雙豎行楷書款。

    乾隆以後從嘉慶至宣統時期的宮廷玻璃製品均以單色玻璃為主，但製作工藝已有所下降。此碗玻璃壁較厚，透明度相對乾隆時期玻璃器已有明顯區別，相對缺乏晶瑩質感，玻璃中已夾雜少去氣泡，另其因外表打磨不均而出現不均勻小坑，都是清晚期造辦處所生產玻璃器的典型特點。

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