Green Buddha

1780-1900
Height: 7.3 cm
Mouth/lip: 0.68/1.38 cm
Stopper: coral; vinyl collar.

Provenance:
Robert Kleiner, April 1992
The Mary and George Bloch Collection Sotheby’s Hong Kong, 1 June 2015, lot 105
Hugh Moss (HK) Ltd.

 

Transparent emerald-green and colourless glass; with a flat lip and recessed convex foot surrounded by a protruding convex foot rim; carved as a single overlay with, on one main side, a seated Buddhist figure on a mat holding a vase in his joined palms and with a halo behind his head, and on the other with a standing figure holding a rosary.

Alexander Whittaker