PROPERTY FROM A PRIVATE COLLECTION A DEEP RED OVERLAY OPAQUE WHITE GLASS GLOBULAR BOTTLE VASEWheel-cut Qianlong four-character mark in a double square and of the period The wide heavy body elegantly rounded below a very slightly waisted tall neck and above a separately annealed short cylindrical foot with a broad flat foot ring carved from a red overlay, the decoration carved in deep fine relief in a continuous scene around the body and neck with two large tree sprays, one maple and the other prunus, rising from pierced rockwork that runs above the foot with a bird standing sentinel on opposite sides. 6 1/2in (16.5cm) high 清乾隆 白套紅料胎花木紋天球瓶 《乾隆年製》雙行雙方框陰文刻款 See Humphrey K.F. Hui and Peter Y.K. Lam, Elegance and Radiance, Grandeur in Qing Glass, The Andrew K.F. Lee Collection , The Art Museum, The University of Hong Kong, 2000, pp. 286-287, no. 106 for an imperial overlay bottle vase of similar type probably made as a birthday tribute for the Qianlong emperor. See also a red-overlay white glass bottle vase of similar size, decorated with bamboo and prunus in the lower half and also a wheel-cut Qianlong mark sold at , London, 7 Nov 2019, lot 101. see also another sold at Christie's, Hong Kong, 30 May 2018, lot 2914.