Details
Each jar is carved on the exterior with four shou characters formed by stylized chilong, the low-domed cover carved with similar shou characters. The translucent glass is of a lemon-yellow color.
512 in. (14 cm.) high


Provenance
Josephine P. Albright (1914-1996), restricted gifts in memory of Alice Higginbotham Patterson.
The Art Institute of Chicago, accessioned in 1967.
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