IMPERIAL RED-OVERLAY TRANSLUCENT GLASS BOTTLE VASE QIANLONG MARK AND OF THE PERIOD the body and neck carved through a layer of ruby red glass to a snowflake ground with peony and lotus sprays in circular cartouches, the spandrels with continuous floral meander, the neck with fan-shaped panels containing prunus and lotus, the base incised with a four-character Qianlong mark within square panel (Dimensions: 27.3cm high) (Qty: 1) (27.3cm high) Qty: (1) Footnote: Provenace: Private English collection, acquired from Christie's London, 13 November 2001, lot 105 Note: a smiliar pair which also bear Qianlong marks, illustrated in Elegance and Radiance: Grandeur in Qing Glass, The Andrew K.F. Lee Collection, Hong Kong, 2000, p. 296, no. 111. The style of carving of the ruby-red overlay to the snowflake ground is highly similar; another closely comparable white glass with red overlay vase, similarly with a four-character Qianlong mark and dated to the late 18th century, is in the collection of the Philadelphia Museum of Art, accession number 1925-27-93; a further comparable example was sold at Christie's Hong Kong, Live Auction 3322 on 28th May 2014, lot 3496