Chi’s Spread

Imperial, Beijing, 1800-1900
Height: 6.5 cm
Mouth/lip: 0.72/1.65 cm
Stopper: tourmaline; glass collar

Provenance:
Emily Byrne Curtis
Robert Kleiner (1986)
Bloch Collection
Bonham's, Hong Kong, 27 May 2012, lot 120

Published:
Curtis 1982, no.8
Kleiner 1987, no. 96
Kleine Schätze aus China, 6
Moss Graham and Tsang 2002 no. 981
La Gazette de la Tabatière Chinoise, Winter 2016, no. 11, p. 20, fig. 6.

Exhibited:
Newark Museum, New Jersey, October-November 1982
Sydney L. Moss Ltd., London, October 1987
Creditanstalt, Vienna, May-June 1993

 

Transparent, pale ruby-red, sapphire-blue, emerald-green, slightly greenish-yellow, aquamarine-blue, translucent turquoise-blue, and slightly milky colourless glass, all suffused with air bubbles of various sizes; with a slightly concave lip and recessed, convex, oval foot surrounded by a protruding foot rim made up of elements of the design; carved as a single overlay with a continuous design of nine chi dragons, one, at the base of the bottle with a lingzhi growing nearby and another lingzhi held in the mouth of one of the dragons

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Alexander Whittaker