Amethyst Blush

Imperial glassworks, Beijing, 1720-1820
Height: 4.15 cm
Mouth/lip: .85/1.39 cm
Stopper: stained quartz; gilt-bronze collar.

Provenance:
From a tomb in the environs of Beijing (by repute).
Hugh Moss (HK) Ltd

 

Transparent, pale amethyst glass; of compressed horizontal ovoid form with a cylindrical neck, wide mouth, flat lip and flat rectangular foot; faceted with an octagonal profile made up of square, rectangular and trapezoid panels, the two main sides with raised, convex panels made up of four triangular (with one rounded edge) panels meeting at a point in the centre.

Alexander Whittaker