Handful of Happiness
1730-1830
Height: 5.06cm
Stopper: coral, carved as a twig
Provenance:
Hugh Moss (HK) Ltd.
Hedda and Lutz Franz Collection, Hong Kong
Translucent white nephrite of pebble material with areas of beige-brown inner skin; well hollowed and carved in the form of an irregularly shaped gourd, using the darker colouring as a partial cameo, with a severed leafy branch starting around the mouth of the bottle and curling around the fruit above two butterflies or moths in flight.
