a rare enameled glass vase Qianlong seal mark and period

of guyuexuan-type, the double-gourd shape with an unusually large upper bulb, supported on a short foot, the flared neck culminating in an everted lip, the glass of milky-white tone, the body painted with the 'Three Friends of Winter' (pine, prunus and bamboo) in famille-rose enamels, iron-red seal mark within a square to the base, wood box with inscription in regular script, wood stand (3)

Replica Shoes 's Hong Kong, 29th April 1992, lot 253.

The vase and enamels are in good condition. There is a 1/4 inch long incipient flake to the foot rim. Some tiny and negligible pinholes and spots to the surface.
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No other vase of this unusual form appears to have been published. One related example also decorated with the 'Three Friends of Winter', of bottle vase form, is illustrated in Hugh Moss, 'Enamelled Glass Wares of the Kü Yüeh Hsüan Group', The International Chinese Snuff Bottle Society Journal, June 1978, fig. 5. Another rare ovoid enameled glass bottle painted with prunus and bamboo amid rockwork, was sold in these rooms, 26th March 1996, lot 108. A rare enameled glass 'phoenix' vase was sold in our Hong Kong rooms, 2nd May 1995, lot 203; again on 4th November 1997, lot 1246; and again on 10th April 2006, lot 1818.

The inscription on the box can be translated as: 'Enameled glass vase in the shape of a gourd painted with plum tree and bamboo in the Guyuexuan style of the Qianlong period. In the collects ion of the Youzhou Studio.'