A CHINESE RED OVERLAY GLASS 'BAJIXIANG' BRACELET

A CHINESE RED OVERLAY GLASS 'BAJIXIANG' BRACELET

Late Qing Dynasty

Formed as a thin bubble-suffused band of translucent glass carved through red glass with the Eight Buddhist Symbols,

6.5cm diameter

c.f. See a pair of related bracelets, decorated with lingzhi and dragons rather than the bajixiang, illustrated in Claudia Brown and Donald Rabiner, 'Clear As Crystal, Red As Flame: Later Chinese Glass', China Institute in America, New York, 1990, p.96, no.65.

紅料八吉祥手鐲

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