A RARE INCISED APPLE-GREEN GLASS SLENDER BALUSTER VASE

INCISED AND GILT QIANLONG SIX-CHARACTER MARK

细节

A RARE INCISED APPLE-GREEN GLASS SLENDER BALUSTER VASE
incised and gilt qianlong six-character mark
The opaque green glass with a paler foot and a rich apple-green at the shoulder finely engraved with a diamond-point with a continuous landscape of mountains, pavilions and trees beside a lake with figures on boats and on horseback, below a narrow key-pattern band at the mouth suspending a ruyi-cloud collar with scrolling extensions
8 in. (22.3 cm.) high

出版

P.H. Plesch, Some decorative techniques found in later Chinese glass, in T.O.C.S., 1979-80, pp.47-66, pl.15 & 16

拍品专文

A pink glass bottle vase in the Bristol Museum has a similar landscape decoration incised in this most unusual technique. Chinese glass carvers almost invariably used skills derived from carving hardstones or grinding on a lapidiary wheel.