Four Chinese Transparent Five Color Overlay Glass Articles 18TH/19TH CENTURY 清中期 淡黃地套藍綠料獸紋天球瓶、淡黃地套綠料鳳紋石榴尊、綠地套五彩料蓋盒及小賞瓶 comprising a transparent green circular box and conforming cover, all raised above a banded honey-toned splaying foot, carved through the polychrome overlay in high relief with chilong winding through tufts of cloud scrolls; a stout bottle vase of translucent swirled white and yellow glass, worked to the globular body and columnar neck in opaque and transparent tones to show mythical beasts. The third example an unusual pale jar, worked from the yellow and white glass with an integral rocky base of naturalistic form, applied with transparent phoenix overlay. The last a petite transparent green vase, the body of shield form and rising to a foliate mouth rim, the ruby overlay carved withchilong amidstlingzhisprigs. Height of tallest vase 7 5/8 in., 19.4 cm. Property from the Halim Time & Glass Museum, Evanston, Illinois The circular box: Ex. Ina & Sandford Gadient Collection Acquired in Philadelphia in the early 1990s Illustrated: Chinese Qing Dynasty Glass Treasures: A Selection from the Gadient Collection. Asiantiques, 2009, cat. no. 28. Bottle vase: Ina & Sandford Gadient Collection no. 209 (adhesive label) The pale yellow jar with rockwork base: Ex. Ina & Sandford Gadient Collection no. 54 (adhesive label) Illustrated: Treasures of Chinese Glass Work Shops. Asiantiques, 1997, cat. no. 54. The transparent green vase: Ex. Ina & Sandford Gadient Collection Illustrated: Chinese Qing Dynasty Glass Treasures: A Selection from the Gadient Collection, Vol. III. Asiantiques, 2011, cat. no. 61. Please note this Lot is to be sold at No Reserve 本拍品不設底價