The heavy cast compressed globular body set with two mask handles, a band of raised lotus flowers around the foot and at the rim a band of keyfret, the body of warm variegated tones of warm honey colour, the whole including the base scattered with with irregular gold splashes, the base with a crisply cast apocryphal raised six-character, Xuande mark within a rectangle. Period: 17th/18th century. Length: 13 cm.