• Dimension: Height: 3 1/4 in (8.3 cm) Width: 5 in (12.7 cm)
• Estimate From: $2000
• Estimate To: $3500

Of quatre lobed form, the white stone worked with straight tapering sides rising from a countersunk base to a straight-cut rim, the interior decorated a rounded ball with flame close to one side of the rim and with a small copper spoon in the center, finely carved to two confronting sides with openwork handles in the form of a climbing chilong with bifurcated tails and muscular limbs and a small standing phoenix with long scrolling tail, each resting its head on the mouth rim, the stone of a white tone, with fitted zitan stand and spoon. Qing Dynasty period.