A rare opaque pale-blue glass quatrefoil jardinière

Qianlong four-character mark and of the period

Footnotes

清乾隆 天藍色玻璃海棠式盆

For other rare examples of Qianlong marked 'light blue'glass of similar colour to the current lot, see one smaller example in the Phoenix Art Museum (19.1cm wide), illustrated by C. Brown, The Robert H. Clague Collection, Chinese Glass of the Qing Dynasty, 1644-1911, Phoenix, 1987, no.45; Another one is illustrated by F. G. Lorin, Chinese Qing Dynasty Glass Treasures: A Selection from the Gadient Collection, Florida, 2009, no.16. A third example from Yamanaka & Co. was sold at Sotheby's Hong Kong, 4 April 2012, lot 3209; See also a similar light-blue glass quatrefoil jardiniere, which was sold at Christie's London, 6 November 2018, lot 130.

For a Qianlong marked and period 'realgar' glass jardiniere of identical form, see Radiant Reflections in Chinese Glass: An exhibition organised by the Ceramics and Glass Circle of Australia, Geelong, 2002, no.27, which was sold at Sotheby's Hong Kong, 8 April 2014, lot 3033.

帶乾隆官款的天藍色玻璃海棠式花盆比較少見，目前傳世品中見有四例：見鳳凰城藝術博物館藏一件，尺寸稍小（19.1厘米），著錄於《The Robert H. Clague Collection, Chinese Glass of the Qing Dynasty, 1644-1911》，鳳凰城，1987年，編號45；另見 F. G. Lorin著錄《蓋迪安藏清代玻璃珍品集粹》，佛羅里達，2009年，圖16。第三例見日本山中商會舊藏，後售於香港蘇富比，2012年4月4日，拍品編號3209；第四例見倫敦佳士得曾售出一例，2018年11月6日，拍品編號130。

另見香港蘇富比曾售出一件清乾隆仿雄黃料海棠式水仙盆，2014年4於诶日，拍品編號3033，著錄於《Radiant Reflections in Chinese Glass: An exhibition organised by the Ceramics and Glass Circle of Australia》，吉郎，2002年，圖27。