After Midnight

1760-1880
Height: 5.63 cm
Mouth/lip: .51/1.62 cm
Stopper: jadeite; gilt-metal collar

Provenance:
Aalders, Australia, 13 September 2014, lot 878

 

Slightly translucent black nephrite with some, tiny grey areas; with a concave, flat foot and flat footrim; carved on both main sides with raised, convex circular panels, and on the narrow sides with raised, scalloped, elongated-ovoid panels.

Alexander Whittaker