With rounded shoulders and a tapering body, set with two hinged semi-circular handles folding to each side of a short raised mouth rim fitted with a pierced cover, the top of the cover cast with interlaced floral designand the base carved with an immortal old man playing chess next to bamboo. D:15.3cm. H:9cm Provenance: Prominent Canadian family collection of British decent items acquired c1950-1975. Further provenance:Estate of the late Harry Geoffrey Beasley (1881-1939) a British anthropologist and curator of Cranmore Ethnographical Museum.