Lot description
of flattened pear-shape rising to waisted neck and lipped rim, each side finely carved in low relief with a ferocious and powerful five-clawed dragon leaping amidst jagged flames, the dragon with large horns and long whiskers above gaping jaws, its scaly body twisting and writhing with its clawed limbs outstretched below a 'flaming pearl' at the neck, flanked at the neck by a pair of handles elegantly modelled as phoenix, the plumage picked out with fine incisions, all supported on a flared foot of oval section carved with a raised keyfret band, the translucent stone of an even white tone throughout with small areas of opaque inclusions
