White World

1770 - 1840
Height 5.92
mouth/ lip 0.96/ 1.75cm
Stopper glass, glass collar.

Provenance
Robert Chang
Gerd Lester
George and Mary Bloch Collection
Sothebys, Hong Kong, 27th May 2013 lot 232
Private collection, UK

Published
Kleiner 1987 no 84
Treasury 5 no 854

Exhibited
Sydney L Moss London October 1987

 

Translucent white glass; with a flat lip and recessed, convex, oval foot surrounded by a protruding, rounded, oval footrim; carved on each main side with a similar scene of a country residence, set amidst rocks, forming a natural bridge over a stream, with a pine tree, plantain and a lotus pond, with formalized clouds overhead, the scene made continuous by running the two similar scenes into each other at the narrow sides.

Alexander Whittaker