Water Dragons
Palace workshops, Beijing, 1760-1840
Height: 7.4 cm
Mouth/lip: .62/1.7 and 1.4 cm (oval)
Stopper: tourmaline; gilt-bronze collar
Provenance:
Doyle, New York, 21 March 2011, lot 270
Hugh Moss (HK)
Transparent, bubble-suffused, greenish-blue glass; with a flat lip and recessed, flat, elongated-oval foot surrounded by a protruding, flat, elongated-oval footrim; carved on each main side with a pair of confronting kui dragons.
