A CHINESE YIXING SQUARE-SECTION TEA CANISTER AND COVER 18TH CENTURY Each facet decorated in...

A CHINESE YIXING SQUARE-SECTION TEA CANISTER AND COVER

18TH CENTURY

Each facet decorated in relief with a bird swooping down towards a prunus tree, with a further two birds below, all reserved on a finely incised key fret ground, the body surmounted by a short metal neck, with a dragon in pursuit of a sacred pearl to the cover, 24.5cm. (2)

Cf. Yixing Zisha Wares, 15th November 2011, lot 43 for a pair of similar canisters from the Arthur J Harris Collection sold in these rooms; see also C J A Jörg, Chinese Ceramics in the Collection of the Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam, The Ming and Qing Dynasties, pp.250-251, no.288 for another related example.