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A PAIR OF RED OVERLAY GLASS 'BATS AND PEACHES' BANGLES
19th century Each bracelet carved in relief through the translucent red overly to mottled bubble-suffused glass with a band of bats interrupted by peaches. Each 7.6cm (3in) diam. (2).
Luís Esteves Fernandes (1897-1988) was a Lisbon diplomat who was appointed Third Secretary to the Portuguese Legation in Beijing in 1925 and stayed in China for over six years.
Compare a similar pair of red overlay glass bangles in similar slender form, 19th century, but decorated with Daoist Emblems, illustrated in by C.F.Shangraw and C.Brown A Chorus of Colors: Chinese Glass from Three American Collections, Asian Art Museum of San Francisco, 1995, p.121, no.96 a,b., which was later sold at Christie's New York, 21 March 2014, lot 2362.
霏雪料為地套紅料其上,紅料琢為兩蝙蝠兩壽桃,環繞一周,霏雪料中有細密氣泡,紅料溫潤沉靜。此對套料手鐲纖細小巧,應為女士佩戴所作,參看三藩市亞洲藝術博物館曾展出一對十九世紀霏雪地套寶石紅料暗八仙手鐲,著錄於C.F. Shangraw 及 C. Brown,《A Chorus of Colors: Chinese Glass from Three American Collections》,三藩市,1995年,頁121,編號96 a,b,後售於紐約佳士得,2014年3月21日,拍品編號2362。
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