Lot description
of a bird-form perched on a disk-shaped base, with a short circular rim at the top of its head forming an opening, and its open beak serving as the spout, the hollow body extending down to the base with an elaborate double-stranded loop handle, the handle adorned with five small florets and two robust knobs and affixed at the back of the neck, the bird featuring a sharply defined face with pronounced eyes beneath thick eyelids and a pointed beak, and its neck and back of the head decorated with downy feathers, depicted with scalloped lines and delicate feathery strokes of slip, the breast with incised strokes, between wings portrayed with scalloped feathers in relief above the incised tail, the vessel coated with sancai glazes splashing across its surface, leaving the beak, tail, rim, and handle in a monochrome green, with the eyes, inner beak, undersides of the wings, and legs finished in amber, the breast featuring amber and white splashes, and the cheeks in white, the base underside left unglazed and exposing the cream-coloured body, wood stand, Japanese wood box 31.2 cm
