Lot 1133. An opaque sky-blue glass bottle vase, Qianlong four-character wheel-cut mark within a square and of the period (1736-1795), 8¾ in. (22.2 cm.) high. Estimate USD 12,000 - USD 18,000. Price realised USD 161,000. © Christie's Images Ltd 2014

The vase has a high-shouldered, tapering ovoid body and a tall neck that tapers to the flat mouth rim.  

Provenance: Imperial Oriental Art, New York, 2001.
Hugh W. Greenberg (1930-2013) Collection, Franklin, Michigan.  

Note: Compare the similar bottle vase, also with Qianlong mark, of slightly larger size (25 cm.), where the color is described as peacock blue, illustrated by Zhang Rong in Luster of Autumn Water: Glass of the Qing Imperial Workshop, Beijing, 2005, pp. 146-47, no. 20. Another, also larger (23.8 cm.), with Qianlong mark, in the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, is illustrated by C. Brown and D. Rabiner in Clear as Crystal, Red as Flame, China Institute, New York, 1990, p. 69, no. 33. See, also, the similar vase sold at Christie's Hong Kong, 1 June 2011, lot 3802.

Christie's. Fine Chinese Ceramics and Works of Art, 18 - 19 September 2014, New York