Lot 52. A pair of red overlay white glass vases, Late Qing Dynasty. Estimation: USD 6,000 - 8,000. Price realised 5,000 €. Photo: Christie's Image Ltd 2016

Each high-shouldered, tapering body is carved through the soft red overlay to the semi-opaque white ground with a continuous scene of a lady accompanied by an attendant conversing with an official on a terrace below the branches of a pine tree and another tree that continue up onto the neck below the key-fret-inscribed red rim. 11 ¾ in. (30 cm.) high (2)

Provenance: Mrs. Anna Thompson Dodge, Rose Terrace, Grosse Pointe Farms, Michigan; Christie's New York, 27-29 September 1971, lot 193.
Weiss Gallery, Birmingham, Michigan, 1991.

Christie's on line. The Art of China.