Octagonal beaker vase with a shishi and hoo-bird in a landscape, Octagonal porcelain vase with a trumpet-shaped mouth, painted in underglaze blue. On the wall a shishi (lion dog) on a rock in a landscape surrounded by the 'three friends of winter' (bamboo, prunus, pine) and a peony plant, a hoo bird flies above the shishi. The decoration is ended by a band of clouds with ruyi motifs. The outer border with floral scrolls interrupted by two lobed cartouches: one with a hay bird above a pearl on three ruyi wool motifs, the other with a floral scroll. The foot with two bands with a decorative patt

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Photo credit: © Gibon Art / Alamy / Afripics
License: Royalty Free
Model Released: No

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