Prunus Integrity

Fuzhou, 1780-1900
Height: 5.4 cm
Mouth/lip: 0.65/1.45 cm

Stopper: peachstone, carved with two figures, rocks, and clouds (probably made from half a bead); stained ivory collar

Provenance:
Robert Kleiner, 1994
Jarvis Collection, April 2012

 

Black lacquer on textile; with a flat lip and protruding flat, rounded-rectangular foot; each main side with a foliate panel of an identical moulded design of flowering prunus blossoms on an ancient tree growing from a grassy ground, the shoulders with a band of formalized lingzhi heads, with the same inverted around the base

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Alexander Whittaker