A Very Rare Nephrite White Jade Ram Head Teapot. exquisitely and skilfully worked from a lustrous and even white stone with a rounded twelve-lobed body resting on a splayed foot of corresponding form, the spout rendered on one side in the form of a ram's head, the beast sensitively depicted with alert eyes and a pair of long curved striated horns above the ears, the mouth-rim of the vessel bordered with three evenly spaced paired lugs to secure the gilt-bronze and cloisonné enamel handle, each side of the handle with a band meticulously detailed with foliate scrolls and accentuated with a cloisonné enamel fish and ruyi terminal, all surmounted by a central floret at the top, the cover of the vessel with sides of similarly lobed form and encircling a central finial with a short waisted stem and stepped globular lobed knop. Dimensions 6 3/4 in (17.0 cm) x 4 3/4 in (12.0 cm) x 8 3/8 in (21.0 cm) Provenance Provenance: From the collection of a retired architect, Eastvale, CA