Abundance

Probably Imperial, attributed to the Palace workshops, 1750-1820
Height: 6.41 cm
Mouth/lip: .6/2.32 cm
Stopper: jadeite; silver collar

Provenance:
John F. Ruckman
Charles V. Swain (no. 81)
Christie’s, Paris, 21 November 2008, lot 35
Hugh Moss (HK) Ltd.

 

Transparent ruby-red and opaque yellow ochre and paler yellow glass; of compressed ovoid form with a slightly tapering cylindrical neck, flat lip and recessed, flat oval foot surrounded by a flat oval footrim; Carved as a single overlay of red on yellow ochre with an oval panel on each main side, framed in red, one side with the three abundances (peach, pomegranate and finger-citron or Buddha’s-hand fruit) all growing from the same severed leafy branch, the other with a severed, leafy branch with two persimmons, and a beribboned ruyi sceptre.

Alexander Whittaker