Russian Imperial Lapidary Works, Malachite Tazza (ca. 1830)

This long handscroll comprises a four-character frontispiece, a landscape painted in ink and color on silk, and a poem written in ink on paper in running script ("xingshu"). Both t...

Three piece tazza consisting of a base, top plate, and bottom plate...

Three piece tazza consisting of a base, top plate, and bottom plate...

Painted on paper in ink and the relatively light shades of color that the literati painters of the Suzhou-based Wu School typically employed, this long handscroll presents a panora...

The painting features a large, blue tazza with white accents that contains various fruits and flowers. Flanking the base of the tazza, on both sides, is a sprig with a large red fl...