An extremely fine, single red-overlay Peking Glass Vase, 18th century

With cylindrical neck and oviform body; decorated on the 'snowflake' ground with an elaborate design of a phoenix perched on a rock beside camellia, bamboo and fungus. 27cm (10in) high. Estimate: £12,000 - 15,000

Footnote: For a similar jar and cover, compare No. 110 in Elegance and Radiance: Grandeur in Qing Glass/The Andrew K.F. Lee Collection by Hui and Lam (Hong Kong/2000). Compare also another 18th Century bottle vase, catalogued as 'red on crushed ice ground' illustrated No.2757 in the Royal Academy Exhibition Catalogue, London/1935-1936.

Bonhams. Chinese & other Asian Works of Art, 11 May 2009. Knightsbridge www.bonhams.com (Copyright © 2002-2009 Bonhams 1793 Ltd., Images and Text All Rights Reserved)