Boating on an Autumn River

1700-1850
Height: 5.32 cm
Mouth/lip: .5/1.46 cm
Stopper: tourmaline; gilt-silver collar

Provenance:
Aaron and Mrs Tilton Collection
The Asian Art Studio, San Francisco, September 2011
Hugh Moss (HK) Ltd.

 

Translucent white nephrite with brown skin possibly enhanced by staining; well hollowed with a concave lip and recessed, quatrefoil flat foot surrounded by a protruding, flat, quatrefoil footrim; each of the four sides with raised rectangular panel, one main one stained or naturally brown and resembling figures boating on a river between a foreground and a far bank of a precipice.

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Alexander Whittaker