Lot description
skilfully potted with a larger globular bulb gracefully sweeping up to a smaller upper bulb, rising to a slender neck and flared rim, the lower bulb finely painted in copper red with four roundels of confronting chilong writhing in pairs, their meandering bodies portrayed with mottled skin and bifid trailing tails, their claws grasping scrolling lingzhi stalks growing in circle to form a medallion, each wreathed and interspersed by further shaped panels of ruyi sprays, between a collar of pendent overlapping ruyi draping the shoulder and a border of petal lappets skirting the foot, the waist cinched with a key-fret frieze, the upper bulb similarly decorated with four roundels formed by chilong clutching lingzhi scrolls among sprays of ruyi, between ruyi and petal borders, the countersunk base inscribed in underglaze blue with a six-character seal mark, wood stand, Japanese double wood box 29.5 cm
