A GILT-BRONZE MOUNTED MING-STYLE BLUE AND WHITE MEIPING QING DYNASTY, 18TH CENTURY

painted in the fifteenth century style around the broad-shouldered body with fruiting branches of finger citrus, lychee and pear between pendent stiff leaf and ruyi bands, the short waisted neck encircled by a lotus-lappet and lotus scroll band, the shoulder set with a pair of archaistic gilt-bronze handles suspending fixed rings, the interior and neck fitted for a lamp, gilt-bronze base