A CHINESE ENAMELLED GLASS WASHER. Qing Dynasty, 18th Century, or later. The clear globular body on a short circular recessed foot, rising to a lipped rim, painted to the exterior with peonies emerging from behind rockwork, 7cm H. 清十八世紀或更晚 料玻璃繪花卉圖洗 Enamelled and gilt-decorated clear glass wares are extremely rare, and extant examples exhibit a high level of variation. A Qianlong mark and period circular box and cover published in Arts of the Scholar’s Studio, cat no 95, p 126, has incised floral details infilled with blue pigment and gilt. A glass washer of similar, but more compressed form and decoration, catalogued as Qianlong mark and period, is in the Cheng Xun Tang collection (Treasures of Chinese Glass Workshops, 1997, cat no 23) but has very different consistency and translucency of the coloured enamels. Another washer, of similar form, decorated with plum blossom, but on white opaque glass, and with a Gu yue xuan mark to the base is published as Luster of Autumn Water: Glass of the Qing Imperial Workshop, 2005, cat no 10.10. Other examples of clear glass pieces include those purely decorated in gilt. As such precisely categorising and dating the present piece is difficult, however, it adds to the intriguing variety within glass making.
A CHINESE ENAMELLED GLASS WASHER. Qing Dynasty, 18th Century, or later. The clear globular body on a short circular recessed foot, rising to a lipped rim, painted to the exterior with peonies emerging from behind rockwork, 7cm H. 清十八世紀或更晚 料玻璃繪花卉圖洗 Enamelled and gilt-decorated clear glass wares are extremely rare, and extant examples exhibit a high level of variation. A Qianlong mark and period circular box and cover published in Arts of the Scholar’s Studio, cat no 95, p 126, has incised floral details infilled with blue pigment and gilt. A glass washer of similar, but more compressed form and decoration, catalogued as Qianlong mark and period, is in the Cheng Xun Tang collection (Treasures of Chinese Glass Workshops, 1997, cat no 23) but has very different consistency and translucency of the coloured enamels. Another washer, of similar form, decorated with plum blossom, but on white opaque glass, and with a Gu yue xuan mark to the base is published as Luster of Autumn Water: Glass of the Qing Imperial Workshop, 2005, cat no 10.10. Other examples of clear glass pieces include those purely decorated in gilt. As such precisely categorising and dating the present piece is difficult, however, it adds to the intriguing variety within glass making.
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