Of globular form rising from short ring foot to short waisted neck, the rim with a carved protruding ring, the finely carved decoration with five large rosettes between bands of lotus and radiating petals above and below, one side with a suspension hoop.

Provenance: Rev. Dr. Nevil Maskelyne (d.1811) The Royal Observatory, Greenwich. His wife Margaret Maskelyne at Bassett Down, Wiltshire, thence by descent
Christie’s, South Kensington, 27 April 2012, lot 564

Exhibited: The Miho Museum, Koka 2016, p.45, no.20
Grand Palais, Paris 2017, p.81, no.50
The Doge’s Palace, Venice 2017, p.96, no.10
The Palace Museum, Beijing 2018, pp.112-13, no.51
de Young Legion of Honor, San Francisco 2018, p. 173, no. 36.

Note: A nephrite-jade inkwell, very similar in size and decoration, is in the al-Sabah Collection (Keene with Kaoukji, 2001, p.115, cat.9.14).