Big-mouthed Wisdom

1770-1850
Height: 5.45 cm
Mouth/lip: 1.3/2.08 cm
Stopper: tourmaline; gilt-silver collar

Provenance:
Marsh’s, San Francisco, 1 September 1927
Mrs. Claus Sprecklels, Coronado Beach, California.
Robert Hall, September 2011.

 

Translucent variegated beige nephrite; with a wide mouth, flat lip and recessed, concave circular foot; carved with a horizontal band around the centre of the body with formalized archaic clouds and dots between double-line borders, beneath two inscriptions in seal script順受其正 Shunshou qizheng  and 莫非命也 Mofei mingye.

‘One should accept normality in life’.

Alexander Whittaker