Of a globular body supported on a slightly everted foot, flanked with two beast carving handles, bronze with golden tone exterior decorated with mythical creatures in a fire scenery sandwiched between horizontal bandsand repeated vines meander and butterfly carvings in relief, accompanied with a openwork floral cover with a jade surmounted, damage on the cover W:18cm, H:16cm Provenance: Prominent Canadian familycollection 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.