A lobed eight-panel comport, the bowl worked in high-relief repoussé with an alternating program of auspicious subjects: a sky dragon surging through clouds, a scholar contemplating a winter garden, birds on prunus blossom, birds among bamboo, and a peony in full bloom. Each panel is framed by polished borders against a finely matted ground, the imagery drawn from the classical vocabulary of Chinese decorative art — symbols of longevity, scholarly virtue, and the natural world in perpetual renewal.
The stem is formed as a sea dragon — jiaolong — rising in full relief from cresting waves, its scaled body rendered with remarkable sculptural precision, jaws open, every fin and whisker crisply delineated. The silver base is engraved with further wave decoration and mounted on a turned hardwood plinth. Two marks are struck to the base: the retail mark of Wang Hing and the artisan mark of Xie Chang.
A lobed eight-panel comport, the bowl worked in high-relief repoussé with an alternating program of auspicious subjects: a sky dragon surging through clouds, a scholar contemplating a winter garden, birds on prunus blossom, birds among bamboo, and a peony in full bloom. Each panel is framed by polished borders against a finely matted ground, the imagery drawn from the classical vocabulary of Chinese decorative art — symbols of longevity, scholarly virtue, and the natural world in perpetual renewal.
The stem is formed as a sea dragon — jiaolong — rising in full relief from cresting waves, its scaled body rendered with remarkable sculptural precision, jaws open, every fin and whisker crisply delineated. The silver base is engraved with further wave decoration and mounted on a turned hardwood plinth. Two marks are struck to the base: the retail mark of Wang Hing and the artisan mark of Xie Chang.
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