This is a fine early to mid 20th century Peking Glass vase with an opaque milk white ground and beautiful cobalt blue flowers and butterflies in the cameo cut overlay.
Earlier examples of Peking glass had more variegated glasses as the base color. The earlier pieces also showed signs of hand carving of the second layer which left the edges of the design softer. This vase has sharp edges to the overlay blue glass that has been cut away to reveal the design thereby showing that the design was cut... Click for details
Gabbert, Gunhild, Chinesisches Glas, Frankfurt am Main: Museum fuer Kunsthandwerk, 2nd edn. 1980. Soft cover. 47 pp, 65 objects described and photographed in b/w, 2 pp. illustrated marks. Text in German only. Objects from the collection of the museum.
Good condition.
18th Century. Ching Dynasty, Ch’ien-lung period. This small, thinly carved and semi-translucent, twelve-sided, soft-yellow colored ‘Peking’ glass bowl is superlative among small, undecorated Peking glass vessels of its type. While it bears no inscription or reign mark, it is very likely a product of the Zaobanchu (imperial workshops), or from Boshan in Shandong Province which works often exceed imperial wares, especially in the remarkable thinness of their carving. In either instance, it is ... Click for details
This is a very sweet small Peking glass bud vase from the mid 20th century, circa 1950s-1970s. The base glass is a milky white opaque glass - there is then an applied royal blue handle in the shape of an elongated leaf. The vase measures 6 1/8" high and is 3" diameter at its widest. A fine addition to any studio glass collection.
An imperial yellow, emerald green overlay Peking glass vase of exceptional artistic carvings of the phoenix, crane, florals and butterflies. There is even a pagoda and mountain suspended on a wave of clouds. The four character mark is done in seal script within a double cartouche square. Condition is excellent with a very small possible nick that was polished out at the mouth rim. I can not determine if this is natural or it is actually a polished out nick, it was too small to photograph. 18t... Click for details
19th century
Length: 9 5/8 in (24.4 cm)
Width: 6 1/8 in (15.6 cm)
A massive and rare opaque black glass figure of a recumbent water buffalo, well carved in the manner of similar animals in jade, the color imitating black jade.... Click for details
Guangxu period, 1875-1908
Height: 2 ¼ in (5.7 cm)
Diameter: 5 3/8 in (13.7 cm)
A transparent amber glass censer suffused with bubbles, the compressed bulbous body slightly asymmetrical with two large oval-shaped handles, a short neck and a high foot ring. The... Click for details
19th century
Height: 2 5/8 in (6.7 cm)
Diameter: 6 in (15.2 cm)
An opaque green glass bowl modeled in the form of a large lotus leaf with a scalloped-rim folding over the edge of the lotus leaf, the outside carved and incised with lotus leaves, pods and bloss... Click for details
Late 18th to early 19th century
Height: 7 ¾ in (19.7 cm)
An opaque white glass vase with transparent green overlay, carved in high relief to depict an official and two courtesans in a garden with a peony rising from rockwork, the shoulder carved with a ring, and the neck with a wide band of ruyi.... Click for details
19th century
Height: 3 in (7.4 cm)
Diameter: 3 in (7.6 cm)
A small white jar with a five-color overlay (blue, red, green, pink and amber), carved with two roosters, a cat and butterfly, rockwork, bamboo and plum blossoms emerging from a vase. The mouth and fo... Click for details
