Precious Longevity

Probably imperial, Palace workshops 1760-1840
Height: 5.7 cm
Mouth/lip: .38/.98 cm

Provenance
A private English collection.
Robert Kleiner, September 2012.
Hugh Moss (HK) Ltd.

 

Transparent aquamarine suffused with icy flaws; with a flat lip and concave oval foot; carved with a continuous scene of Shou Lao, holding a walking staff with a double gourd tied to its upper end, and holding a peach in his other hand standing beneath a peach tree with four further fruit, and with a flowering peony bush and a flowering magnolia tree growing beside rock formations.

Alexander Whittaker