Trustworthy Official

1736-1780
Height: 6.1 cm
Mouth/lip: 0.55/1.80 cm
Stopper: jadeite; vinyl collar

Provenance:
Rare Art, New York (1981)
Gerd Lester (1986)
The Bloch Collection
Sotheby’s, Hong Kong, 26 November 2013, lot 76
Hugh Moss (HK) Ltd.

Published:
Sydney L. Moss Ltd., London, exhibition poster, October 1987 (not included in exhibition)
Treasury 5, no. 902

Transparent ruby-red and translucent white glass, the former with a few scattered small air bubbles; with a flat lip and recessed convex foot surrounded by a protruding flattened footrim; carved as a single overlay with a continuous design of a qilin, flames coming from its haunches, standing on formalized waves with two rocky promontories rising from them, with formalized clouds and the sun above.