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Lot Description

Four Chinese Glass Figures of Guanyin

18TH-19TH CENTURY

清中期涅白料、琥珀料、仿翡翠料觀音立像各一及琥珀料觀音坐像
comprising three figures of the bodhisattva standing, the first of opaque white glass imitating jade, the second swirled of white and green glass suggestive of jadeite, the third amber. The smallest example showing the figure seated and holding a vase, worked in transparent brown glass evocative of amber.

Height of tallest 10 1/2 in., 26.7 cm.

Property from the Halim Time & Glass Museum, Evanston, Illinois

Ex. Ina & Sandford Gadient Collection
Published:
Treasures of Chinese Glass Work Shops. Asiantiques, 1997, cat. nos. 59-62.

Please note this Lot is to be sold at No Reserve 本拍品不設底價

Condition Report

Imitation jadeite figure bae drilled and slight fracture to hair; the rest in good condition with minor surface wear

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