Flying Feng

Probably imperial glassworks, Beijing, 1740-1840
Height: 5.54 cm
Mouth/lip: 0.65/1.70 cm
Stopper: glass; gilt-silver collar

Provenance:
Unidentified dealer, Tianjin, 1943
Ko Collection, 1998

 

Translucent scarlet, yellow-ochre, and yellow, and semi-transparent honey-grey glass (‘realgar-glass’); with a flat lip, its inner edge bevelled, and flat, oval foot; the brighter colouring splashed at random in the honey-grey matrix.

Alexander Whittaker