Moulded Longevity

Provenance:
Arthur Gadsby
Robert Kleiner (1991)
Bloch Collection
Sotheby’s, Hong Kong, 26 November 2013, lot 169

Published:
Stevens 1976, no. 758
Kleiner, Yang and Shangraw 1994, no. 261
Mos, Graham and Tsang, no. 1524

Published:
Hugh Moss and Stuart Sargent, The Water, Pine and Stone Retreat Collection of Snuff Bottles.  Part One. Imperial Influence over the Snuff Bottle Arts.

Exhibited:
Creditanstalt, Vienna, May–June 1993
Hong Kong Museum of Art, March–June 1994
National Museum of Singapore, November 1994–January 1995

 

Golden-brown, brown, and black lacquer on textile; with a flat lip and a protruding concave foot surrounded by a flattened foot rim; decorated on each main side with an identical design of a formalized shou (longevity) character set on a diaper-pattern ground made up of squares within squares, contained within an elaborated, foliate raised frame based on a formalized lingzhi, the exterior with a painted layer of golden-brown lacquer on a ground of brownish-black; the interior of black lacquer.

Enquire
Alexander Whittaker