bowl

Object Name2 Bowls

Made FromGlass

Dateabout 1800-1899

TechniqueMold-blown, carved

SizeAverage H: 8.4 cm; Average Rim Diam: 16.5 cm

Accession Number55.6.17

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Interpretive Notes

Web Text

宝石红雉鸡水仙雕刻玻璃碗

Place Made

China, possibly Beijing

Physical Description2 Bowls. (A) Bowl, with flaring rim and tapered wall that is rounded toward hollow base; subconical foot-ring. On first bowl, wall is engraved with landscape: rocks and flowering plum tree and magnolia. Longtailed pheasant flies above another pheasant that crouches on rock. Smaller bird in plum tree watches another bird in sky. On base, Qianlong’s four-character mark within square, double-lined border. (B) Gold ruby bowl; minute bubbles and some larger impurities. Cast, engraved in low relief (Hochschnitt), with flaring rim and tapered wall that is rounded toward hollow base; subconical foot-ring. l is engraved with landscape: rocks and flowering plum tree and magnolia and longtailed pheasant. On base, Qianlong’s four-character mark within square, double-lined border.
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