Bohemian Rhapsody

Attributable to Boshan, 1880-1920
Height: 5.1 cm
Mouth/lip: 0.73/1.45 cm (measured across the flat facets)
Stopper: glass; vinyl collar

Provenance:
Sotheby’s, Hong Kong, 28 October 1992, lot 360
The Bloch Collection
Sotheby’s, Hong Kong, 26 November 2013, lot 122

Published:
Kleiner, Yang and Shangraw 1994, no. 72
Treasury 5, no. 863
Hugh Moss (HK) Ltd

Exhibited:
Hong Kong Museum of Art, March-June 1994
National Museum, Singapore, November 1994-February 1995

 

Colourless glass; with a flat, octagonal lip; carved with a circular panel on one main side with radiating lines emerging from it to meet at a central point on the other main side

Alexander Whittaker