The black and white bird is shown with head lowered and turned as it preens its wing while standing on a perch that rises from a globular tripod base decorated with bat-filled ruyi collars and lotus scroll above and below a band of key fret, the whole supported on a circular platform that forms the top of a similarly decorated, domed stand with ruyi feet joined by a ruyi apron.Origin: ChinaPeriod: 19th-20th centurySizes: 28.00 cm. H11.02 in. H