PROVENANCE: From collections of Victor J. Drack Jr. (1934-2019) of Kinnelon, St. Augustine, FL. A telecommunication Engineer, a successful businessman in Northern Florida. In the initial years following his retirement he and his wife traveled extensively around the world to many countries. He put interest in collecting glass art, especially antique Peking glass and his late wife became an avid collector and had added more than 40 pieces. Dimensions: Weight: 2140g, Height: 21 cm, Diam.: 13.8 cm Chinese Qing Dynasty Daoguang Dragon Motif Yellow Peking Glass Carved Vase. The Peking glass shaped in moon vase, thick and tall, globular moon lower belly, emerge two elephant head flanked on straight cylindrical neck, rectangles mouth rim, raised on rectangle foot base with slight concave footing. All reserved in yellow. The body carved with snarling huge imperial five claws dragon careening through cumulus clouds above thrashing Li-shui waves in a carving beneath the attractive egg-yolk-yellow. Peking glass originated in 18th century China during the rule of the Qing Dynasty. Historically, many pieces of Peking glass were made with yellow glass dubbed Imperial Yellow, due to the colors strong association with the Qing Imperial . The Under-base bears a reign mark, a four Carved Seal script characters reign mark. Made in The Years Daoguang Reign Period of The Great Qing Dynasty.