A SAPPHIRE-BLUE OVERLAY WHITE GLASS 'PEONY' BALUSTER VASE QING DYNASTY, 18TH / 19TH CENTURY

of baluster form rising from a recessed base and flared foot to a waisted neck and everted rim, the opaque milky white glass body overlaid with a layer of bright translucent blue glass, carved through the ground in varied reliefs with two large peony blossoms borne on a continuous meandering foliate stem, between plain blue overlay bands encircling the foot and rim

Collection of Professor P.H. and Mrs. T. Plesch.
Sotheby's London, 12th November 1979, lot 113.

There is a 0.7 cm restored chip to the footrim together with minute occasional nibbling around the mouth rim or along the edges of the carving. Otherwise the vase is good condition.
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