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拍品专文
This pair of stem bowls belongs to a rare group of multi-color glass vessels, with the sections of the vessel delineated by contrasting colors. The colors of the individual sections are thought to have been used to imitate other materials. These rare stem bowls include imitations of lapis, coral and jade and reflect the emperor’s fascination with creating objects that trick the eye.
The present pair of stem bowls is extremely rare, with the addition of carved decoration around the stems and the underside of the bowls. A pair of candlesticks with sections of turquoise, dark blue, yellow and red glass are in the Tokyo National Museum and also feature carved supports and domed bases, with four-character Qianlong marks wheel-cut on the upper blue sections of the bases. (Fig. 1) A multi-colored glass vase on tiered base in the Palace Museum, Beijing, with the four-character Qianlong mark evenly spaced on the a low-domed base, is illustrated by Zhang Rong (ed.) in Luster of Autumn Water – Glass of the Imperial Workshop, Beijing, 2005, pp. 192-3, no. 50.
Small vases constructed with bands of contrasting colors were also created. A five-color example with a four-character Qianlong mark evenly spaced around the underside of the foot, in the collection of the Palace Museum, Beijing, is illustrated in ibid., pp. 194-5, no. 51. A pink, bluish-green and bright blue glass vase was included in the sale Luminous Colors, Treasures from the Shorenstein Collection; Christie’s Hong Kong, 1 December 2010, lot 2939, and includes the Qianlong wheel-cut four-character reign mark evenly spaced around the outer edge of the slightly concave, solid base.
This rare pair belonged to the renowned New York art dealer Alexandre Rosenberg (1921-1987) and his wife Elaine. Alexandre Rosenberg was the founding president of the Art Dealers Association of America, and the son of the pre-eminent French art dealer Paul Rosenberg, who represented giants of modern art such as Picasso, Matisse and Braque. Alexandre’s gallery in New York won acclaim with exhibitions that ranged from Renaissance bronzes to Cezanne and Picasso, American modernists and contemporaries from England and Italy. His wife Elaine was an influential Fellow of The Morgan Library and deeply involved with MoMA and the Cloisters at The Metropolitan Museum of Art. The Rosenberg’s important and distinguished collection of illuminated manuscripts and early printed books was sold at Christie’s New York on 23 April 2021.
The present pair of stem bowls is extremely rare, with the addition of carved decoration around the stems and the underside of the bowls. A pair of candlesticks with sections of turquoise, dark blue, yellow and red glass are in the Tokyo National Museum and also feature carved supports and domed bases, with four-character Qianlong marks wheel-cut on the upper blue sections of the bases. (Fig. 1) A multi-colored glass vase on tiered base in the Palace Museum, Beijing, with the four-character Qianlong mark evenly spaced on the a low-domed base, is illustrated by Zhang Rong (ed.) in Luster of Autumn Water – Glass of the Imperial Workshop, Beijing, 2005, pp. 192-3, no. 50.
Small vases constructed with bands of contrasting colors were also created. A five-color example with a four-character Qianlong mark evenly spaced around the underside of the foot, in the collection of the Palace Museum, Beijing, is illustrated in ibid., pp. 194-5, no. 51. A pink, bluish-green and bright blue glass vase was included in the sale Luminous Colors, Treasures from the Shorenstein Collection; Christie’s Hong Kong, 1 December 2010, lot 2939, and includes the Qianlong wheel-cut four-character reign mark evenly spaced around the outer edge of the slightly concave, solid base.
This rare pair belonged to the renowned New York art dealer Alexandre Rosenberg (1921-1987) and his wife Elaine. Alexandre Rosenberg was the founding president of the Art Dealers Association of America, and the son of the pre-eminent French art dealer Paul Rosenberg, who represented giants of modern art such as Picasso, Matisse and Braque. Alexandre’s gallery in New York won acclaim with exhibitions that ranged from Renaissance bronzes to Cezanne and Picasso, American modernists and contemporaries from England and Italy. His wife Elaine was an influential Fellow of The Morgan Library and deeply involved with MoMA and the Cloisters at The Metropolitan Museum of Art. The Rosenberg’s important and distinguished collection of illuminated manuscripts and early printed books was sold at Christie’s New York on 23 April 2021.