QIANLONG FOUR-CHARACTER WHEEL-CUT MARK WITHIN A SQUARE AND OF THE PERIOD (1736-1795)

Glass vases of this bottle shape, with similar Qianlong marks, were made in various colors, in both opaque and transparent glass. Several in the Andrew K.F. Lee Collection are illustrated in Elegance and Radiance: Grandeur in Qing Glass, The Art Museum, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, 2000, pp. 100-107, nos. 9-12. An opaque turquoise example in the Robert H. Clague Collection is illustrated by C. Brown and D. Rabiner in Chinese Glass of the Qing Dynasty, 1644-1911, pp. 36-7, no. 35.