The vessel is raised on three blade-form supports, and the sides are finely cast with twotaotie masks formed by pairs of addorsed birds, one mask is centered by a narrow flange, the other by an inscription cast under the handle. A pair of capped posts decorated with whorls rise from the rim. The bronze has a mottled, milky green patina with some malachite and azurite encrustation..

Provenance: The Collection of Marjorie Bissinger, San Francisco, acquired 1950s-90s.
Bonham's San Francisco, 27 June 2000, lot 3397.

Note: The inscription cast under the handle consists of a figure of a dog set within a ya.

Christie's. FINE CHINESE CERAMICS AND WORKS OF ART, 18 – 19 September 2014, New York, Rockefeller Plaza