Chi Rings

Probably Imperial glassworks, 1740-1830
Height: 7.4 cm
Mouth/lip: 9/1.49 cm
Stopper: tourmaline; gilt-bronze collar

Provenance:
Wang Ning, October 2010
Hugh Moss (HK) Ltd.

 

Transparent, pale emerald-green with slight brown streaking, and bubble-suffused colourless glass; with a wide mouth, flat lip and recessed, convex foot surrounded by a protruding footrim made up of elements of the design; carved as a single overlay with a continuous design of four chi dragons, the heads of two of them acting as mask handles with rings in their mouths.

Alexander Whittaker