03 mai 2008
A yellow glass baluster vase - 19th century
A yellow glass baluster vase - 19th century
Finely carved with an Immortal lady supporting a sword in its scabbard against her shoulder, flanked by two female attendants holding a plantain leaf and a wrapped zither, all standing in a fenced garden with plantain and trees under swirling cloud scrolls, the base with an incised apocryphal four-character Qianlong mark within a double square, the glass of opaque amber-yellow tone, wood stand. 24.5cm (9½in) high. (2). Estimate: £3,000 - 5,000
Provenance: Formerly in the Sweatt family collection, Minneapolis (founders of Minneapolis-Honeywell Regulator Company, which later changed its name to Honeywell).
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Bonhams. Fine Chinese Art, 12 May 2008. New Bond Street
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