Handling Piece

1730-1850
Height: 5.8cm
Mouth: 0.57cm
Stopper: coral carved as a basket of flowers

Provenance:
Robert Kleiner April 1997
Franz Collection, Hong Kong

Published:
FranzArt "Chinese Art from the Hedda and Lutz Franz Collection", Volume One - Jade, 2010 p. 139 & 285

 

Translucent white nephrite of pebble material with some russet-brown and grey skin; of natural pebble form without a functioning foot; carved using the as a partial cameo with a design of a chi dragon and a bat flying amidst clumps of formalized clouds. Stopper: Coral carved as a basket of flowers

Alexander Whittaker