19th May, 2023 13:00
A CHINESE BLUE-OVERLAY BEIJING GLASS 'CHILONG' BANGLE
Late Qing dynasty
晚清 藍套料螭龍紋手鐲
Carved through translucent blue glass to a bubble-suffused ground with sinuous dragons chasing each other's tails
7.1cm diameter
Provenance: Property of a French Private Collection formed in Hong Kong during the 1960’s-1980’s
來源:法國私人收藏,1960-1980年代在香港組成
c.f. See a pair of related bracelets, decorated with lingzhi and dragons, illustrated in Claudia Brown and Donald Rabiner, 'Clear As Crystal, Red As Flame: Later Chinese Glass', China Institute in America, New York, 1990, p.96, no.65.
A related pair from the Barney and Emma Dagan Collection, carved instead with the Eight Daoist Emblems in red-overlay, was offered at Christie's New York, 21st March 2014, lot 2362, and also referenced in C.F. Shangraw and C. Brown, 'A Chorus of Colors: Chinese Glass from Three American Collections', Asian Art Museum of San Francisco, 1995, p. 121, no. 96 a,b.
Another related bracelet, of red-overlay and carved with shou characters, is housed in the Corning Museum of Glass, acc. no. 51.6.138.
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