Bowl with Stand

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Object Name: 
Bowl with Stand
Accession Number: 
75.6.11 B
Dimensions: 
Overall H: 6.7 cm; Rim Diam: 15.5 cm
Location: 
Not on Display
Date: 
1644-1949
Credit Line: 
Bequest of Ellen Biedlingmaier
Web Description: 
透明描金花卉纹碗
Provenance: 
Biedlingmaier Estate, Ellen, Source
1975-09-11
G. Malina, Inc., Oriental Art, Former Collection
Yuan Mingyuan, Former Collection
Primary Description: 
Bowl with Stand. Colorless, lead (?) glass, gilt; mold-blown, facet-cut. Bowl flares to flat, gilded rim; body facet-cut with four adjoined tiers with small open-fan shapes in lowest row; hexagons in next two; pentagons with curved tops in top row; gilt-painted design in European style, painted in large part, in corresponding forms, on exterior and interior; rounded foot rim bears scroll pattern painted in gilt, both on interior and exterior; above, a gilt line surmounted by long and short perpendicular lines; slightly concave base; painted in gilt on interior and exterior with four- character reign mark of “乾隆年制Qianlong Nianzhi” within single-lined border square in the center. Modern mahogany stand of carved, splayed lobes.