A YELLOW GLASS 'LOTUS LEAF' BRUSH WASHER QING DYNASTY, 18TH CENTURY |

skilfully formed as a lotus leaf with furled edges forming a floral outline, the short foot of the vessel skilfully rendered in the form of curling stems, the stems further extending across the exterior and issuing slender leaves and a lotus bud, the interior carved with a pair of birds, possibly egrets, with their beaks endearingly conjoined, the glass of a translucent bright lemon-yellow colour

Another rare yellow glass brush washer from the collection of Alan Feen, of closely related lotus-leaf form but carved with crabs, illustrated in The Minor Arts of China IV, Spink & Son Ltd., 1989, p. 86, fig. 111, and front cover, and in Claudia Brown and Donald Rabiner, Clear As Crystal, Red As Flame: Later Chinese Glass, China House Gallery, China Institute in America, New York, 1990, cat. no. 42, was sold at Bonhams Hong Kong, 24th November 2010, lot 207.