PROPERTY FROM THE ESTATE OF ELLEN C. GOLDSCHMIDT A YELLOW, BEIGE, RED AND ORANGE OVERLAY OPAQUE WHITE GLASS BOTTLE VASEQing dynasty, 18th century Carved through the unusualbination of overlays with a plant rising from one side of the vessel with thin wavy-edged beige and yellow leaves and stems with various outgrowths including magnolia, a gourd and two hibiscus flowerheads, one in red, the other yellow, the other side of the vessel with a loose branch of prunus blossom with five butterflies nearby, the opaque white ground with some areas of swirling green glass suggestive of a stream running beneath the prunus, all supported on a short slightly spreading broad circular foot ring. 6 1/4in (15.8cm) high 清 十八世紀 白地套三色料胎花蝶紋長頸天球瓶 Provenance: Spink & Son Ltd., October 1979 The Goldschmidt Collection, 1979 to the present 來源： Spink & Son Ltd.古董行，1979年10月 戈爾德施密特收藏（The Ellen C. Goldschmidt Collection）, 1979年至今 See Humphrey K.F. Hui and Peter Y.K. Lam, Elegance and Radiance, Grandeur in Qing Glass, The Andrew K.F. Lee Collection , The Art Museum, The University of Hong Kong, 2000, pp. 326-327, no. 125 for a similar bottle vase with auspicious fruit and leaves. For another floral-decorated bottle vase with the addition of a few more color overlays, see Christie's Hong Kong, 1 December 2010, Luminous Colours: Treasures from the Shorenstein Collection , lot 2940.