PROVENANCE:
From collections of Victor J. Drack Jr. (1934-2019) of Kinnelon, St. Augustine, FL. A telecommunication Engineer, a successful businessman in Northern Florida. In the initial years following his retirement he and his wife traveled extensively around the world to many countries. He put interest in collecting glass art, especially antique Peking glass and his late wife became an avid collector and had added more than 40 pieces.

Dimensions: Weight: 800g, Height: 8.5 cm, Diam.: 19.5 cm

Chinese Qing Dynasty Guangxu Peking Glass Carved Flowers motif bowl. The bowl has an open mouth, round body shaped, thick, deep arced body, raised with round foot ring and slight concave. The interior, exterior are both covered in egg yellow. And carved with Flowers blossom interspersed foliage ad interlocking tendril. Peking glass originated in 18th century China during the rule of the Qing Dynasty. Historically, many pieces of Peking glass were made with yellow glass dubbed Imperial Yellow, due to the colors strong association with the Qing Imperial.

The Under-base bears a reign mark, a four carved seal script characters reign mark. Made in The Years Guangxu Reign Period of The Great Qing Dynasty.

Over all in EXCELLENT condition.
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