18th/19th centuryFinely carved with a recessed oval foot rising to rounded shoulders flanked by animal-mask handles and a short tubular neck, the stone of a yellowish-green tone mottled with large russet patches depicting the design, one side with a sage sitting at ease in a mountainous landscape among high cliffs and pine trees, the other side with a cluster of rocks below the auspicious inscription Shoushan Fuhai translating as 'Your age ancient as the mountains, your happiness wide as the sea'. 6.4cm (2 1/2in) high.