A PAIR OF RED BEIJING GLASS BOWLS

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900 € - 1.500 €

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Description:

China, Qianlong/ Jiaqing period
D. 17,5 cm
With well rounded sides terminating in an everting lip, and standing on a a neatly cut foot ring. The sides are carved in positive relief with two flower branches and a butterfly. The translucent glass is of ruby-red tone.
Collection of Gudrun and Peter Selinka, Ravensburg, purchased according to records of Mrs. Selinka in the 1980’s from Spink & Sons Ltd., London, sold at Klefisch Cologne, 12.10.2013, lot 195 and bought by the present owner, inventory no. 937 For similar examples see Garner ‚The Arts of the Ch’ing Dynasty‘, no. 321, pl. 105, in the collection of the City Art Gallery Bris tol; and Jenyns and Watson ‚Chinese Art - The Minor Arts II‘, pl. 83, pp. 146-7. Very minor traces of age, few very tiny chips

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