PROPERTY FROM THE ESTATE OF ELLEN C. GOLDSCHMIDT A TRANSPARENT AUBERGINE GLASS 'HIGH-RELIEF-DRAGONS' GLOBULAR TRIPOD CENSER AND COVERQing dynasty, 18th/19th century The transparent glass of a pale purple-brown aubergine tone, the globular rounded body carved with a low-relief backdrop of oval panels formed by rope-twist borders and centered on each side by a single partially-high-relief bearded coiling dragon amidst low-relief clouds and waves and facing a fire-scroll with mythical pearl, each panel divided by high-relief lion-mask fixed-ring handles, supported on three short out-curving animal-mask feet, the shallow domed cover carved with cloud scrolls and ruyi lappets below a separately attached knop finial. 5 1/4in (13.3 cm) high; 5in (12.7cm) across 清 十八/十九世紀 透紫料胎雕雲龍紋帶鋪首銜環三足蓋爐 Provenance: Roger Keverne Ltd., London, Winter 2000, no. 73 The Goldschmidt Collection, 2000 to the present Literature: Emily Byrne Curtis, (ed.), Pure Brightness Shines Everywhere: The Glass of China , Aldershot, 2004, no. 7 來源： 倫敦Roger Keverne Ltd.古董行，2000年冬，編號73 戈爾德施密特收藏（The Ellen C. Goldschmidt Collection）, 2000年至今 出版： Emily Byrne Curtis編，《Pure Brightness Shines Everywhere: The Glass of China》，奧爾德肖特鎮，2004年，圖版7