Bottle ID: 00499
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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