Lot 507
Five Chinese Opaque Pink Glass Articles
Estimate
$3,000 - $5,000

Sold for $688

Sold prices are inclusive of Buyer’s Premium
Lot Description
Five Chinese Opaque Pink Glass Articles
18TH-19TH CENTURY
清晚期 粉料開光花鳥紋碗一對、小天球瓶一對及梅瓶一尊
comprising a pair of petite bottle vases, the globular bodies supported on an even circular foot, with tall narrow necks culminating in a slightly raised lip about the the mouth opening, a graceful meiping, with well-proportioned shoulders above a slender waist and flattened base, the glass with gentle striations and bubbles; and a pair of bowls etched with alternating floral and bamboo frosted reserves, the mouths with a slight everted lip, each foot gently tapered. 
Height of tallest vase 6 in., 15.2 cm.
Property from the Halim Time & Glass Museum, Evanston, Illinois
The bottles vases:
Ex. Ina & Sandford Gadient Collection no. 21 (adhesive label)
Published: Treasures of Chinese Glass Work Shops. Asiantiques, 1997, cat. no. 21.

The meiping:
Ex. Ina & Sandford Gadient Collection
Illustrated:
Treasures of Chinese Glass Work Shops. Asiantiques, 1997, cat. no. 20.
Chinese Qing Dynasty Glass Treasures: A Selection from the Gadient Collection.
Asiantiques, 2009, cat. no. 23
Exhibited:
Museum of Fine Arts, St. Petersburg, Florida, January-May 1999
Lowe Art Museum, December 1999-January 2000

The pair of etched bowls:
Ex. Ina & Sandford Gadient Collection
Illustrated: Chinese Qing Dynasty Glass Treasures: A Selection from the Gadient Collection, Vol. III. Asiantiques, 2011, cat. no. 18.


Please note this Lot is to be sold at No Reserve 本拍品不設底價 
Condition Report
Two small bottle vases with bubble bursts and firing imperfections throughout; pair of bowls in good condition; meiping in good condition

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