A transparent blue glass footed bowl with matching lid. Yongzheng mark and possibly of the period
A transparent blue glass footed bowl with matching lid with a concave body with everted rim, set on an almost vertical foot, the slightly domed lid with a spherical knob, wheel engraved decoration of shou medallions surrounded by abstract scrolls resembling dragons. Engraved four-character mark Yongzheng to the outer rim and possibly of the period. Tiny traces of gilding. Box.
Height 14 cm; diameter 17 cm
Such bowl may have been produced by court order on the occasion of the Emperor's birthday and placed as a food container on an altar. The bowl's distinctive shape calls to mind offering bowls known as qingshuiwan (pure water bowls), used in Buddhist ceremonies.
清雍正 寶石藍料夔龍紋壽字蓋碗《雍正年製》款
來源：歐洲私人收藏
可比：Clear as Crystal, Red as Flame, China House Gallery, 紐約 1990年, 第12 圖，Humphrey Hui 與 Peter Lam, Elegance and Radiance, Grandeuer in Qing Glass, 香港 2000年, 第 256-259頁, 第 94 圖，E. B. Curtis, Yongle Glass: Elegant Forms, The National Palace Museum Monthely of Chinese Art, 第 318 號, 2009年9月, 第 65 頁, 第 4 號
Provenance
European private collection
Literature
Compare a very similar piece (without lid), illustrated in: Clear as Crystal, Red as Flame, China House Gallery, New York 1990, cat. no. 12; Humphrey Hui and Peter Lam, Elegance and Radiance, Grandeuer in Qing Glass, Hong Kong 2000, p. 256-259, fig. 94 and E. B. Curtis, Yongle Glass: Elegant Forms, in: The National Palace Museum Monthly of Chinese Art, No. 318, September 2009, p. 65, no. 4.