PROPERTY FROM THE ESTATE OF ELLEN C. GOLDSCHMIDT A RARE TRANSPARENT PURPLE GLASS GOURD-SHAPE VASEQing dynasty, 18th century The unusually colored glass brilliantly carved from the originally thickly walled vessel with naturalistically rendered branches of vine tendrils and gourds that fall from a single branch at the neck of the slender upper section and then splits and run down and around the bulbous lower section, a simple shallow concave foot, the mouth interior with a chamfered edge. 7in (17.7 cm) high 清 十八世紀 透紫料胎藤葉紋葫蘆瓶 Provenance: Pao & Moltke Ltd., Toronto, July 1986 The Goldschmidt Collection, 1986 to the present 來源： 多倫多Pao & Moltke Ltd.藝廊，1986年7月 戈爾德施密特收藏（The Ellen C. Goldschmidt Collection）, 1986年至今 For another unusual small transparent purple glass gourd vase bearing a Qianlong four-character mark and of similar type, see Christie's New York, 18-19 September 2014, lot 1135, from the Hugh W. Greenburg Collection, Franklin, Michigan.