清乾隆 料胎琺瑯彩四季花鳥歲歲平安圖石榴尊 藍料雙方框「乾隆年製」宋體款清乾隆 料胎琺瑯彩四季花鳥歲歲平安圖石榴尊 藍料雙方框「乾隆年製」宋體款3 1⁄8 in. (8 cm.) high, boxDetails A VERY RARE AND EXQUISITE ENAMELLED ‘FOUR SEASONS’ POMEGRANATE-FORM GLASS WATER POTQIANLONG FOUR-CHARACTER MARK IN DOUBLE SQUARES IN BLUE ENAMEL AND OF THE PERIOD (1736-1795)The pomegranate-form clear glass vessel is delicately decorated in falangcai enamels on the exterior with four separate paintings each representing one of the four seasons, comprising a lotus spray with hovering butterflies; a pair of quails with millet and narcissus; chrysanthemum flowers growing from pierced rocks; and pheasants perched on a prunus branch. The base is inscribed with the reign mark in blue enamel.3 1⁄8 in. (8 cm.) high, box Provenance Sold at Christie’s Paris, 7 June 2011, lot 306品相: A small number of enamelled clear glass vessels for the scholar's table, bearing blue-enamelled Qianlong marks, have been published. A water pot from the A.W. Bahr and Paul and Helen Bernat collections was included in The China Institute of America 1990 exhibition Clear as Crystal, Red as Flame, Later Chinese Glass, Catalogue, no. 23; and again, in the Min Chiu Society Exhibition, Splendour of the Qing Dynasty, Hong Kong, 1992, illustrated in the Catalogue, p. 417, no. 284. Two brush washers in this style have been published: one sold at Christie’s Hong Kong, 28 April 1996, lot 33; the other was illustrated by Hugh Moss, 'Enamelled Glass Wares of the Ku Yueh Hsuan Group', Journal of the International Chinese Snuff Bottle Society, vol. X, no. 2, June 1978, pl. 14, no. 7, where Moss states that 'this type of enamelled clear glass ware is of the highest quality of any known from China'. A clear glass water pot enamelled with the Eight Buddhist Emblems, formerly in the Mary and George Bloch Collection, was sold at Sotheby’s Hong Kong, 23 October 2005, lot 146.