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PROPERTY FROM AN ENGLISH PRIVATE COLLECTION
A VERY RARE IMPERIAL SMALL RUBY-RED OVERLAY WHITE GLASS ‘MALLOW FLOWER’ BOTTLE VASE
QIANLONG INCISED SIX-CHARACTER MARK IN A LINE AND OF THE PERIOD (1736-1795)
Details
A VERY RARE IMPERIAL SMALL RUBY-RED OVERLAY WHITE GLASS ‘MALLOW FLOWER’ BOTTLE VASE
QIANLONG INCISED SIX-CHARACTER MARK IN A LINE AND OF THE PERIOD (1736-1795)
The vase, with a globular body, is surmounted by a tall cylindrical neck carved with upright plantain leaves below a band of embossed curls and bosses. The exterior is skilfully carved through the red layer to the opaque white ground to decorate a frieze of two flowering mallow blooms borne on undulating stems issuing curling furled leaves. All is supported on a short splayed foot and the character sui, ‘year’, is incised on the flat base below the incised reign mark.
4 ¼ in. (10.8 cm.) high
QIANLONG INCISED SIX-CHARACTER MARK IN A LINE AND OF THE PERIOD (1736-1795)
The vase, with a globular body, is surmounted by a tall cylindrical neck carved with upright plantain leaves below a band of embossed curls and bosses. The exterior is skilfully carved through the red layer to the opaque white ground to decorate a frieze of two flowering mallow blooms borne on undulating stems issuing curling furled leaves. All is supported on a short splayed foot and the character sui, ‘year’, is incised on the flat base below the incised reign mark.
4 ¼ in. (10.8 cm.) high
Provenance
Sold at Corkhill and Job, Birkenhead, England, 30-31 January 1956, lot 712
Brought to you by
Priscilla Kong