Elegant Grafitti
Probably imperial, 1760-1820
Height (including original stopper): 7.55 cm
Mouth/lip: 0.47/2.11 cm
Stopper: cinnabar lacquer carved as a formalized chrysanthemum flower with gilt-bronze finial and collar; original
Provenance:
Hugh M. Moss Ltd., 1970-1974
Kobacker Collection
Robert Hall, July 2010
Hugh Moss (HK)
Red lacquer and bronze with gold (‘cinnabar lacquer’); with a flat lip and protruding flat oval foot; carved with a continuous rocky landscape scene with a three trees and other foliage with, on one main side, a scholar strolling along a river bank his servant in front of him holding a branch with two peaches growing from it, and on the other with a scholar in the process of inscribing a rock face, a young attendant holding his inkstone nearby, with a band of formalized clouds around the shoulders, the sky, water and grassy ground depicted in three formalized patters of clouds, water and floral-diaper, the neck with a band of formalized floral diaper, the outer foot rim with a band of continuous leiwen design, the foot with a formalized shou 壽 (‘longevity’) character, the bronze lip gilt.
