A Chinese pear shaped ruby red glass vase, Qianlong four character wheel-cut mark within a square and of the period

A Chinese pear shaped ruby red glass vase, Qianlong four character wheel-cut mark within a square and of the period. Estimate $60,000-80,000 © 2015 Freeman's.

H: 9 1/2 in., 24 cm 

Provenance: Property from an important private collection 

Note: A similar transparent red glass vase from the Franz collection is illustrated by Emily Byrne Curtis (ed.) in Pure Brightness Shines Everywhere: The Glass of China, London/Vermont, 2004, p. 91, fig. 10.2. For a similar example sold at auction, see Christie's New York, September 19th 2014, Lot 1139. 

Freeman's. ASIAN ARTS. 12 SEPTEMBER 2015