Late, Ming dynasty

 wide 20-Cm x 7.5 Hight Cm

The base cast with apocryphal Xuande’s four-character engraved mark known as stamped.

Of quatrelobed form, rising steeply from four short sturdy feet up to a flat rim, cast to each side with a barbed cartouche enclosing Arabic invocations, flanked by a pair of ruyi-head handles, the base cast with apocryphal Xuande four-character mark.

Purchased in the year of 1980, in Hong Kong, Island Shangri, hence held by formal Ownership.

Comes with a certificate from the Art Loss Register