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vase
Object Type
vase
Museum number
PDF.852
Description
Glass bottle-shaped vase with ovoid body and tapering neck. The vase is thick semi-opaque glass. There is a rockery and flowering peonies in mixed enamels and a poetical inscription with three seals in red on the exterior.
Cultures/periods
Qing dynasty
Production date
1800-1900
Production place
Made in:
Beijing (city)
Materials
glass
Technique
enamelled
Dimensions
Height:
95 millimetres
$Inscriptions
Curator's comments
Published PDF date : Qing Qianlong 1736-95
Room 95 label text: PDF 852 Enamelled glass vase with flowers and a poem Jesuit missionaries residing within the Forbidden City brought with them European technologies such as enamelling glass. This bottle-shaped vase is made of opaque white glass decorated in mixed enamels. This vase has a four-character Qianlong mark incised within a double square and filled in with blue green enamel on the base. Enamelled glass China 中國 Qing dynasty, about AD 1800–1900
PDF 852 玻璃畫琺瑯山水詩文瓶 紫禁城內的耶穌會傳教士,帶來了西方的技術,如玻璃畫琺瑯。此瓶質地為不透明白色玻璃,繪混合琺瑯彩料。器底雙方框內刻四字乾隆年款,填藍綠色彩料。 玻璃畫琺瑯 中國 清代,約1800-1900年
Bibliographic references
Scott 1991 / Illustrated Catalogue of Qing Enamelled Ware in the Percival David Foundation of Chinese Art
(p.35, no.852)
Lady David 1973 / Illustrated Catalogue of Ch'ing Enamelled Ware in the Percival David Foundation of Chinese Art
(pp 19-20, no.852, pl. V)
Scott 1989b / Percival David Foundation of Chinese Art: A Guide to the Collection
(p.110, no.114 (vase))
Hobson 1934 / A Catalogue of Chinese Pottery and Porcelain in the Collection of Sir Percival David Bt., F.S.A.
(p. 175, pl. CLXXIV(c))
Location
On display
(G95/dc33/sh7)
Department
Asia
Registration number
PDF.852