Littleton and Hennessy Asian Art -The Imperial Studio - Asian Art in London November 2009


	How we can help you Please contact us if you have any queries, would like a valuation, are looking for a specific piece, interested in refining your collection, or perhaps attracted to the idea of building on a collection.		English \| 中文 The Imperial Studio Asian Art in London 29 October - 7 November 2009 12. A Four-coloured Overlay Glass Washer Qianlong incised four-character mark and of the period (1736–95) The washer is shaped as a peach with a circular aperture, borne on a leafy branch and accentuated with a bat in flight. The glass is of ruby-splashed opaque white with the branch and the bat picked out in translucent ultramarine and purplish blue. The flat base is wheel-cut with the reign mark in kaishu script. 6.5 cm. wide The organic shape of this glass washer probably derived from jade pieces of 17th and early 18th century, such as the jade washer in the National Palace Museum, Taipei, illustrated in Wenfang Juying, National Palace Museum, Taipei, 1996, p. 173. Compare also the red overlay white glass washer decorated with bats in the Palace Museum, Beijing, illustrated in The Complete Collection of Treasures of the Palace Museum – Scholar’s Objects, Hong Kong, 2009, no. 197, p. 206, which bears a very similar mark to the current piece (fig. 14). Download full exhibition catalogue (PDF 1.6 Mb) Exhibition catalogue: Introduction A Zitan Brush Pot An Inlaid Huanghuali Document Chest A Green Enamelled Leaf-Shaped Porcelain Ink Palette A Tianhuang Seal A Tianhuang Seal A Songhua Inkstone A Superb Carved Cinnarbar Lacquer Brushpot A Huangfurong Seal A Duan Ink Stone A Pale Celadon Jade Washer An Ivory Wrist-rest A Four-coloured Overlay Glass Washer An Agate Seal Paste Box and Cover An Ivory Brushpot An Octagonal She Inkstone A Celadon Glazed Porcelain Inkpalette A Soapstone Brush Washer A Jade-Inset Zitan Ink Stand A Bamboo Veneer Document Box A Carved Double Gourd Emperors of the Qing Dynasty		Enlarge image Lot 12: A Four-coloured Overlay Glass Washer
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