The Courage to Live Long

1780-1880
Height: 6.2 cm
Mouth/lip: .49/1.5 cm

Provenance:
John Fell Ruckman  (no. 282)
Charles V. Swain  (no. 316)
Clark Fennimore
Sotheby’s, Hong Kong, 4 December 2015, lot 654
Hugh Moss (HK) Ltd.

 

Translucent yellow and pink glass; with a flat lip, convex foot and convex footrim; carved as a single overlay with a continuous landscape scene with pine trees and a lingzhi growing from a rocky ground with, on one main side an eagle, in the branches of a pine, looking down at a bear on the ground, and on the other with a stag and a crane.

Alexander Whittaker