Lot 195. An opaque red-overlay yellow glass bottle vase, Qing dynasty, 18th-19th century;6.5 in. (16.7 cm.) high. Estimate HK$60,000 - HK$80,000 ($7,777 - $10,369- $15,553). Price Realized HK$75,000 ($9,721). © Christie's Image Ltd 2015

The thick-walled vase is carved through the red outer layer to the golden-yellow body with floral sprays and rockwork on the bulbous body, beneath a chilong on the tall tubular neck. 

Provenance: P. C. Lu & Sons Ltd., Hong Kong 

Property from the collection of Geronimo Berenguer De Los Reyes, Jr.

Note: The colour scheme of this vase is similar to that of a bottle vase of similar shape carved in relief on the neck withchilong, and which has an incised Qianlong four-character seal mark, in the Robert H. Clague Collection, which is illustrated by C. Brown and D. Rabiner in Chinese Glass of the Qing Dynasty, 1644-1911, Phoenix Art Museum, 1987, pp. 32-33, no. 29, where it is dated probably of the period.  

Christie's. THE PAVILION SALE - CHINESE CERAMICS AND WORKS OF ART, 6 April 2015, 22nd Floor