Pearl Quest

Palace workshops, Beijing, 1700-1760.
Height: 5.91 cm
Mouth/lip: 0.56/1.20 cm
Stopper: nephrite; with integral collar, finial and ‘cork’; original.

Provenance:
Jade House, Hong Kong
Hugh M. Moss Ltd (Hong Kong, 1994)
Sotheby's, Hong Kong, 27 May 2013, lot 196 

Published:
Moss, Graham and Tsang 1995, no. 99
Carol Michaelson, ‘A Periodization of the Qianlong Emperor’s Jade Snuff Bottles,’ JICSBS, Spring, 2019, p. 11,  fig. 15

Exhibited:
Israel Museum, Jerusalem, 1997

 

Translucent white nephrite; with a wide mouth, flat lip, and concave, oval foot with a bulging rectangular outer profile; carved with a continuous design of a chi dragon chasing a flaming pearl, which rests on a formalized cloud.

Alexander Whittaker