Bottle ID: 00499

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TURQUOISE GREEN, TAPERED OVOID W/FLUTED LAPPETS

Date: 1740-1820

Height: 58 mm

Glass, of cylindrical meiping form, molded with six vertical fluted lappets rising within shallow grooves from the circular foot, to the rounded shoulders and with a slightly everted mouth, the translucent turquoise-green glass with darker green swirls.

Possibly Imperial, attributed to the Palace Workshops, Beijing.

Similar Examples:

Crane Collection nos. 123 and 417.
Sotheby's, Hong Kong, May 2, 1991, lot 50, The Collection of Arthur Gadsby.
Sotheby's, Hong Kong, October 30, 1990, lot 11, The Kaynes-Klitz Collection, Part II.

Provenance:

Asian Art Studio
Sotheby's, New York, March 23, 2004, lot 33, Robert and Molly Hsieh
Asiantiques, 1993
Sotheby's, London, June 7, 1990, lot 110

Exhibited:

Annual Convention ICSBS Toronto, October 2007

The meiping-like form of this bottle which is taken from ceramic forms, combined with traditional leaf or petal lappets to produce a bottle which is essentially faceted, both point to the Palace Workshops as the likely place of manufacture.  The artistry implicit in this simple form is fascinating.  While it has a 'softer', more rounded look than most angular faceted bottles, the petal lappets are themselves highly formalized and stiff.

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