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
A rare glass opium lamp, comprising three main parts; a central bowl of clear glass with a white overlay carved with four shou characters, fitted with a removable wick holder of red and clear glass; a flat pierced stand of clear glass with a red overlay, carved with four feet with an apron of bats ... Click for details
Late 18th to early 19th century
Length: 57 in (144.8 cm)
A Mandarin’s Court necklace, chao zhu, the 108 opaque Imperial yellow glass beads divided into four groups by larger translucent green beads imitating jadeite, the three Jinian strands of pink glass imitating coral, and the back strap with further glass beads of transparent sapphir... Click for details
Qianlong period, 1736–1795
Height: 8 in (20.4 cm)
Diameter: 5 in (12.6 cm)
An opaque white glass bottle vase with a pink overlay, of compressed globular form with a tall cylindrical neck, a dark green overlay deeply carved with two confronting dragons chasing... Click for details
Late 18th to early 19th century
Height: 3 ¾ in (9.5 cm)
Diameter: 3 7/8 in (9.7 cm)
A translucent white glass jar of bulbous form, decorated with a six-color overlay of green, red, yellow, pink, blue and brown, depicting bats flying amidst three trees springi... Click for details
18th century
Height: 3 3/8 in (8.6 cm)
Diameter: 7 1/8 in (18.1 cm)
A large opaque green glass bowl resting on a small ring foot, the flared walls decorated with boys at play in gold and silver applied to a red lacquer ground and with details in black lacquer... Click for details
18th century
Height: 2 3/8 in (6.1 cm)
Diameter: 3 in (7.7 cm)
A small transparent green glass circular box with an added foot of striated opaque amber color, a four-color overlay carved in high relief with a large qilong amidst scrolling clouds.... Click for details
A baluster form bottle vase of transparent green glass over a very thin layer of white, each side with a white, amber and pink overlay carved in high relief with a peacock and blossoming peonies growing from rockwork, the shoulders with two mock-mask ring-handles, the foot resting on a pink stand car... Click for details
A transparent sapphire blue glass bottle vase, the neck showing a white inner casing, the mallet shaped body decorated with two deeply carved qilong, one pink and the other white, and scrolling clouds.
18th century
Height: 2 7/8 in (7.3 cm)
Diameter: 2 3/8 in (6 cm)
A small translucent white glass ovoid box and cover, decorated with a four-color overlay with three qilong clutching a branch of lingzhi in their mouths amidst clouds, a band of lappets around t... Click for details
