Four Chinese Transparent Five Color Overlay Glass Articles
Sale 950 - Property from the Halim Time & Glass Museum: Sold Without Reserve
Sep 24, 2021
2:30PM CT
Live / Chicago
Estimate
$5,000 -
$7,000
Sold for $1,875
Sold prices are inclusive of Buyer’s Premium
Lot Description
Four Chinese Transparent Five Color Overlay Glass Articles
18TH/19TH CENTURY
清中期 淡黃地套藍綠料獸紋天球瓶、淡黃地套綠料鳳紋石榴尊、綠地套五彩料蓋盒及小賞瓶
comprising a transparent green circular box and conforming cover, all raised above a banded honey-toned splaying foot, carved through the polychrome overlay in high relief with chilong winding through tufts of cloud scrolls; a stout bottle vase of translucent swirled white and yellow glass, worked to the globular body and columnar neck in opaque and transparent tones to show mythical beasts. The third example an unusual pale jar, worked from the yellow and white glass with an integral rocky base of naturalistic form, applied with transparent phoenix overlay. The last a petite transparent green vase, the body of shield form and rising to a foliate mouth rim, the ruby overlay carved with chilong amidst lingzhi sprigs.
comprising a transparent green circular box and conforming cover, all raised above a banded honey-toned splaying foot, carved through the polychrome overlay in high relief with chilong winding through tufts of cloud scrolls; a stout bottle vase of translucent swirled white and yellow glass, worked to the globular body and columnar neck in opaque and transparent tones to show mythical beasts. The third example an unusual pale jar, worked from the yellow and white glass with an integral rocky base of naturalistic form, applied with transparent phoenix overlay. The last a petite transparent green vase, the body of shield form and rising to a foliate mouth rim, the ruby overlay carved with chilong amidst lingzhi sprigs.
Height of tallest vase 7 5/8 in., 19.4 cm.
Property from the Halim Time & Glass Museum, Evanston, Illinois
The circular box:
Ex. Ina & Sandford Gadient Collection
Acquired in Philadelphia in the early 1990s
Illustrated: Chinese Qing Dynasty Glass Treasures: A Selection from the Gadient Collection. Asiantiques, 2009, cat. no. 28.
Bottle vase:
Ina & Sandford Gadient Collection no. 209 (adhesive label)
The pale yellow jar with rockwork base:
Ex. Ina & Sandford Gadient Collection no. 54 (adhesive label)
Illustrated: Treasures of Chinese Glass Work Shops. Asiantiques, 1997, cat. no. 54.
The transparent green vase:
Ex. Ina & Sandford Gadient Collection
Illustrated: Chinese Qing Dynasty Glass Treasures: A Selection from the Gadient Collection, Vol. III. Asiantiques, 2011, cat. no. 61.
Please note this Lot is to be sold at No Reserve 本拍品不設底價
Ex. Ina & Sandford Gadient Collection
Acquired in Philadelphia in the early 1990s
Illustrated: Chinese Qing Dynasty Glass Treasures: A Selection from the Gadient Collection. Asiantiques, 2009, cat. no. 28.
Bottle vase:
Ina & Sandford Gadient Collection no. 209 (adhesive label)
The pale yellow jar with rockwork base:
Ex. Ina & Sandford Gadient Collection no. 54 (adhesive label)
Illustrated: Treasures of Chinese Glass Work Shops. Asiantiques, 1997, cat. no. 54.
The transparent green vase:
Ex. Ina & Sandford Gadient Collection
Illustrated: Chinese Qing Dynasty Glass Treasures: A Selection from the Gadient Collection, Vol. III. Asiantiques, 2011, cat. no. 61.
Please note this Lot is to be sold at No Reserve 本拍品不設底價
Condition Report
Please refer to additional photos for condition of each item noted as follows:
The small vase with a chip at the mouth rim. The 'rockwork' vase with bites at the foot. The large vase with flaking bruise and old restoration to the footring. Flaking and minor to the overlay of the large vase, censer, and box.
The small vase with a chip at the mouth rim. The 'rockwork' vase with bites at the foot. The large vase with flaking bruise and old restoration to the footring. Flaking and minor to the overlay of the large vase, censer, and box.
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