Lot 3799. An imperial opaque lemon-yellow glass facetted bottle vase, Yongzheng incised four character mark within a square and of the period (1723-1735); 5 1/8 in. (13 cm.) high. Estimate HKD 500,000 - HKD 700,000. Price Realized HKD 860,000. © Christie's Images Ltd. 2011

Carved with eight concave facets rising from the foot of conforming outline and continuing up the tall neck, the glass of warm yellow tone.

Provenance: An American private collection

Note: The facetted bottle shape of this vase appears to have been popular from the Yongzheng period onward. It was made in both transparent and opaque glass, and in different colours. Two opaque yellow vases of similar shape, one with a Yongzheng mark and one with a Qianlong mark, in the Andrew K.F. Lee Collection, are illustrated in Elegance and Radiance, The Art Museum, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, 2000, nos. 15 and 18, respectively.

Christie's. Important Chinese Ceramics and Works of Art, 1 June 2011, Convention Hall