• Dimension: Height: 1 1/2 in (3.5 cm) Length: 4 3/4 in (12.0 cm) Width: 3 3/4 in (9.5 cm)
• Estimate From: $2800
• Estimate To: $3800

Chinese. The white stone worked in the form of a lobed floral bloom with delicate rounded walls rising steeply from the foot, one side elegantly tapering into an openwork handle modelled in the form of a ram's head depicted turned to one side, the exterior of the vessel decorated in low relief with a band of upright acanthus leaves, all supported on a splayed foot depicted as a lotus bloom with furled petal tips radiating from a rounded center. Qing Dynasty period.

白玉製成，玉質溫潤細膩，洗心掏膛極薄，精美大方，通體玲瓏薄透。五瓣如花朵般分佈，逐漸收斂，巧雕羊首，作回首顧盼狀，雙角後彎，面容安詳，眉眼及口鼻均以線刻精雕細琢，線條流暢，溫潤可人。本器裝飾手法上，採用浮雕、立雕、鏤空雕等複雜的組合工藝。表面處理採用剔地陽文的方法，雕刻時先琢平底子，再淺浮雕紋飾。浮雕的紋樣磨去琢痕，形成凹凸的視覺反差，增強其藝術表現效果。 （參閱各大收藏機構資料，可見數例，台北故宮博物院藏一件類同羊首杯及一件羊頭瓜瓣杯，展覽並出版於《國色天香：伊斯蘭玉器》，台北，2008年，編號245及編號246。北京故宮博物院亦有一杯，載於《故宮博物院藏文物珍品全集．玉器（下）》，香港，1995年，圖版161。）