Of oval section, the flattened vessel is raised on three feet carved as winged bixie and decorated on each side with an animal-mask on a hatched ground below a sinuous chilong at the rim. The handle is carved in openwork as an archaistic bird and the spout is incised with scrolls. Mid-Qing Dynasty period.Provenance: Private collection, Los Angeles, acquired from Christie's New York, March 2017, Lot 1079