Bottle ID: 00123

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TURQUOISE BLUE, OPAQUE, VASE FORM

Date: 1730-1800

Height: 79 mm

Glass, of opaque turquoise-blue, of slender elongated ovoid form, tapering from the sloping shoulders to an everted lip.
Imperial, attributed to the Palace Workshops, Beijing.

Similar Examples:

The Crane Collection nos. 417, 499 and 743.
Sotheby's, New York, September 15, 1998, lot 88, The Neal W. and Frances R. Hunter Collection.

Provenance:

Robert Hall
Pamela Lessing Friedman

Exhibited:

Annual Convention ICSBS Toronto, October 2007

Published:

Friedman, Pamela Lessing. Chinese Snuff Bottles from the Pamela Lessing Friedman Collection, 1990, pp. 30-31, no. 10

Generally, one thinks of the Japanese as supreme masters of the ability to develop an art form beyond its traditional arena. However, the Chinese were equally adept at this as the development of glass production in the Palace progressed. The elegant simplicity of this example belies the skill of the glass maker. What is superficially a traditional form has become, by virtue of elongating the shape, a masterful and enduring work of art.

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