Of circular shape carved in low relief with lotus, ducks, fish, and "water-horse", the fish and Water-horse issuing scroll clouds with pavilions and a fish in sphere respectively, band of lotus petals to shoulder and sides of cover; the finial in the form of three openwork beast heads, one with a suspension ring, topped by a standing Chinese lion, all raised on three cabriole legs, the stone of a smokey grey color with whiter inclusions.
H(with cover): 9 1/4 in., Dia: 5 1/2 in.
PROVENANCE:
Acquired by the parents of the present owner in the 1970s
Thence by descent.
Of circular shape carved in low relief with lotus, ducks, fish, and "water-horse", the fish and Water-horse issuing scroll clouds with pavilions and a fish in sphere respectively, band of lotus petals to shoulder and sides of cover; the finial in the form of three openwork beast heads, one with a suspension ring, topped by a standing Chinese lion, all raised on three cabriole legs, the stone of a smokey grey color with whiter inclusions.
PROVENANCE:
Acquired by the parents of the present owner in the 1970s
Thence by descent.