A Ming gold and silver-inlaid red and green patinated bronze archaic-form vase and cover

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A Ming gold and silver-inlaid red and green patinated bronze archaic-form vase and cover
with four handles and two mythical-heads to the shoulders, interspersed with flanges to the corners and central panels, decorated with bands of tatie masks and confronting animals enclosing lappets with key-fret grounds -- 17¼.in (43.8cm) high, 17th Century.
See Colour Plate 22.

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