Waxing Moon

Imperial, Guyue xuan (Ancient Moon Pavilion) ware, 1768-1775
Height:  4.4 cm
Mouth/lip: .65/1.3 cm
Stopper: glass; gilt-bronze collar

Provenance:       
Jana Volf, March 2008

 

Famille rose enamels on translucent white glass; of compressed spherical form tapering to a cylindrical neck with a flat lip and protruding, flat oval foot; painted on one main side with a blue bird perched on the branches of a blossoming prunus tree, and on the other with a yellow bird, perhaps a thrush, perched on the branches of a fruiting berry tree, with one berry in its open mouth.

Alexander Whittaker