Imperial Gift

Imperial glassworks, 1720-1830
Height: 3.96 cm
Mouth/lip: .82/1.36 cm
Stopper: glass, carved with a coiled chi dragon; gilt-bronze collar.

Provenance:
Guwan Cheng, Beijing, May 2008
Hugh Moss (HK) Ltd

Translucent Imperial yellow glass; of compressed, spherical form with an octagonal profile, cylindrical neck, wide mouth, flat lip and flat rectangular foot; each main side with a convex oval panel, made up of four main facets, meeting at a point in the centre, set on a flat frame with an oval inner, and octagonal outer profile, the narrow sides, shoulders and foot with flat, rectangular panels.