Strange Companions

1800-1900
Height: 5.21 cm
Mouth/lip: .6/2.02 cm
Stopper: jadeite; gold collar with integral ‘cork’ and spoon

Provenance:
Neal W. and Frances R. Hunter
Sotheby’s, New York, 15 September 1998, lot 245
Peter and Marion Bozzo
Robert Hall, 2012
Ruth and Carl Barron, no. 5344
Christie’s, New York, 15 March 2017, lot 309
Hugh Moss (HK) Ltd.

 

Translucent honey-grey, and variegated brown agate; with a flat lip, convex foot and convex foot; carved using the marking in the stone as a partial cameo with a continuous rocky landscape, with a lingzhi growing from one outcrop, with two Pekinese dogs and a dove on one main side and a monkey, seated on the outcrop holding a peach on the other.

Alexander Whittaker