Strike up the Band

Bottle: China, 1780-1900
Embellishment: Tsuda family, Kyoto, 1890-1930
Height: 6.2 cm
Mouth/lip: 0.6/1.48 cm
Stopper: mother-of-pearl; glass collar

Provenance:
McCarthy Collection
Robert Kleiner, May 2013

Translucent greyish-white glass, soapstone, and cinnabar-red, gold and black lacquer; with a flat lip and foot; embellished with a continuous scene of a woman being pushed in a wheeled sedan chair by an attendant , another walking in front of her holding a ceremonial staff, while four others go in front playing music on a drum, trumpet, flute, and pair of castanets (but held one in each hand).