Lot description
A VERY RARE IMPERIAL MOULDED AND CARVED RUBY-RED GLASS BIRD-FORM EWER QIANLONG FOUR-CHARACTER SEALMARK WITHIN A DOUBLE SQUARE AND OF THE PERIOD (1736-1795) The rounded body conceived as the body of the bird with the head forming the spout, decorated on both sides with foliate dragons below lobed bands of scrolls and rows of overlapping feathers on the back and neck, with a foliate-chased gilt-metal handle, the vessel raised on an oval base carved as sectioned waves radiating from the seal mark in the centre and continuing outward to form the footrim 8 in. (20.3 cm.) long, wood stand
