A LARGE GLOBULAR BRONZE JAR AND COVER with five thin dragon-head feet and rectangular handles, on the body a continuous scene of dragons flying amongst trailing clouds on an intricately patterned ground topped by an overhanging border of shaped lappels, a scroll of stylized snake and flaming pearl motifs underneath a band of key fret on the neck, the finial modelled as a man walking beside a monkey, late 19th century