QIANLONG FOUR-CHARACTER WHEEL-CUT MARK WITHIN A SQUARE AND OF THE PERIOD (1736-1795)

Compare the similar bottle vase, also with Qianlong mark, of slightly larger size (25 cm.), where the color is described as peacock blue, illustrated by Zhang Rong in Luster of Autumn Water: Glass of the Qing Imperial Workshop, Beijing, 2005, pp. 146-47, no. 20. Another, also larger (23.8 cm.), with Qianlong mark, in the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, is illustrated by C. Brown and D. Rabiner in Clear as Crystal, Red as Flame, China Institute, New York, 1990, p. 69, no. 33. See, also, the similar vase sold at Christie's Hong Kong, 1 June 2011, lot 3802.