Three Abundances

1740-1800
Height: 5.6 cm
Mouth/lip: .47/1.83 cm
Stopper: jadeite; gilt-silver collar

Provenance:
Skinner’s, Boston, December 2010
Hugh Moss (HK)

 

Transparent ruby-red and milky, bubble suffused glass; with a wide mouth, flat lip and  recessed, convex foot surrounded by a protruding footrim made up of elements of the design; carved as a single overlay on one main side with a severed, leafy branch with three pomegranates, the other with a severed leafy branch with  three peaches, the foot carved as two Buddha’s-hand fruits

Alexander Whittaker