the deep rounded sides rising from a short spreading foot to an everted rim, carved around the exterior with two rectangular panels, one enclosing a farmer seated on a buffalo playing a flute, the other with a man riding a donkey playing the qin, the transparent metal of rich ruby-red tone, the base inscribed with an apocryphal four-character Qianlong mark;  16 cm, 6 1/4  in.

Provenance: Tsui Museum of Art, Hong Kong.
The Jingguantang Collection.
Christie's New York, 18th September 1997, lot 113.

Sotheby's. Important Chinese Art Londres, 11 mai 2016, 10:00 AM