Green Spring

Yangzhou, 1840-1890
Height: 5.7 cm
Mouth/lip: 0.5/1.4 cm
Stopper: jadeite

Provenance:
Robert Hall, November 2011
Hugh Moss (HK)

 

Transparent emerald-green glass on translucent white glass; with a flat lip, convex foot, and flat foot rim; carved as a single overlay with, on one main side, two ducks in flight above a lotus pond, with a seal in positive seal script that may read Zuzheng 足正 or Pizheng 疋正, and on the other with two magpies, one in flight, the other perched in the branches of blossoming prunus tree above water into which petals have fallen, inscribed above in seal script with a title, Yijie meishou 以介眉壽 (‘That you may be vouchsafed long life’)

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Alexander Whittaker