Refined Formality

Probably Yangzhou, 1800-1911
Height: 5.3 cm
Mouth/lip: .5/1.31 cm
Stopper: tourmaline

Provenance:
Robert Kleiner, 2012
Ruth and Carl Barron, no. 5394
Christie’s, New York, 15 March 2017, lot 361
Hugh Moss (HK) Ltd

 

Transparent sapphire-blue, and translucent white glass; with a flat lip and convex foot and footrim; carved as a single overlay with an identical design on each main side of a highly formalized shou character surrounded by a simplified leiwen (‘thunder pattern’) frame, the narrow sides with mask and ring handles.

Alexander Whittaker