of characteristic barrel form encircled by two bands of small bosses and set on each side with lion-mask ring handles, the top pierced with seven circular apertures, covered overall with a pale grayish-green glaze, the foot rim with brown dressing, the base with an apocryphal Qianlong seal mark in underglaze blue, wood stand (2).

Provenance: Acquired between 1930-36, and thence by descent.

Sotheby's. Saturday at Sotheby's: Asian Art, New York, 18 March 2017