Ruby Fish

Palace workshops, Beijing, 1750-1840
Length: 9.61 cm
Mouth: 0.6 cm
Stopper: pearl

Provenance:
Mrs Edward Dane
Skinner’s, Massachusetts, April 2008, lot 141
Robert Hall, London, July 2008
Hugh Moss (HK) Ltd

 

Transparent ruby-red glass; carved in the form of a fish, a small area on its belly flattened to form a naturalistic foot.

Alexander Whittaker