Enamel Painted Glass Vase

Object Name: 
Enamel Painted Glass Vase

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Object Name: 
Enamel Painted Glass Vase
Place Made: 
China
Accession Number: 
66.6.3
Dimensions: 
Overall H: 8.1 cm; Shoulder Diam: 3.7 cm
Location: 
On Display
Date: 
1900-1966
Web Description: 
玻璃胎画珐琅花卉纹瓶

More Info

Department: 
Early Modern; Modern; Postwar and Contemporary
Provenance: 
Boney, Alice, Source
1966-03
Color: 
Translucent milk-white
Technique: 
glassblowing
enamel painting

Description

Primary Description: 
Enamel Painted Glass Vase. Slight translucent milk-white glass and multi-colored enamels; blown, enamel painted. Baluster shape, enameled in famille rose style; below the lip a band of delicate, meandering vine motif in pink and a band of jui-like motifs in green and pink; on body vari-colored landscape of rock, flowering tree-peony, camellia, lilies, daisy-like plants, grasses and, on camellia branches two birds, one singing; flat base with central circular depressed area with four-character reign mark “Qianlong Nianzhi in blue enamel.