Pink Treasures
Probably Beijing, 1750-1840
Height: 5.89 cm
Mouth/lip: 0.81/1.47 cm
Stopper: jadeite
Provenance:
Hugh Moss (HK) Ltd., 1984.
Hildegard Schonfeld
Christie’s, New York, 21 March 2013, lot 1091
Published:
JICSBS, Winter 1997, front cover.
JICSBS, Spring 2013, p.40, fig. 13
Exhibited:
Taipei Gallery, New York, Chinese Snuff Bottles, 1-29 October 1993, p. 5.
Transparent, ruby-pink and translucent white glass; with a flat lip and recessed, convex, oval foot surrounded by a protruding convex, oval foot rim; carved as a single overlay with a continuous design of various scholarly trappings (a scrolling, two- level stand bearing a bowl of finger-citrons, a zhadou and cover and a bi disc in an elaborate stand, together with a wrapped qin, two cups, a tiny bell-shaped object with a handle, a cong shaped vase with the eight trigrams and a yinyang symbol with a wrapped scroll leaning against it, a small water vessel with a spoon, a weiqi board with boxes of pieces, an incense-tool vase with chopsticks and an incense-spade in it, a ding incense burner with a cover and stand, a volume of books, a covered box on a stand, a vase set on a stand and containing a ruyi sceptre and a halberd with a chime hanging from it, and a seal).
