PROVENANCE: Christie's New York, 19 September 1996, Lot 390 Important Private Collection, Taipei The globular body supported on three cabriole legs issuing from mythical beast masks, the shoulder encircled by a band of raised lappets and surmounted by a waisted neck with a galleried rim, flanked by a pair of dragon handles with bifurcated tails, decorated around the body with formalized lotus blossoms borne on undulating foliate scrolls, the domed cover similarly decorated with leafy lotus blooms enclosed by ruyi- shaped panels, against a pierced ground of pendent bats amid clouds, all beneath an openwork finial with further lotus scrolls.
The globular body supported on three cabriole legs issuing from mythical beast masks, the shoulder encircled by a band of raised lappets and surmounted by a waisted neck with a galleried rim, flanked by a pair of dragon handles with bifurcated tails, decorated around the body with formalized lotus blossoms borne on undulating foliate scrolls, the domed cover similarly decorated with leafy lotus blooms enclosed by ruyi- shaped panels, against a pierced ground of pendent bats amid clouds, all beneath an openwork finial with further lotus scrolls.
PROVENANCE: Christie's New York, 19 September 1996, Lot 390 Important Private Collection, Taipei