Details
Each jardinière is carved on the exterior with Xi Wang Mu, the Queen Mother of the West, followed by a female attendant holding a plate of peaches in a garden scene. The base of each is carved with an apocryphal Qianlong mark. The opaque glass is of translucent egg-yolk-yellow color.
412 in. (11.4 cm.) diam.


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