A Silver Wire-Inlaid Ink Pourer Ming Dynasty, 17th Century

of square section with a slightly tapered body, the everted rim set on one side with a small U-shaped channel, set at an right angle to a slender square-sectioned handle with a downturned stem, the flat base of the interior detailed with a wire inlay lingzhi stalk, the rim with wire key-fret band, and the handle with a foliate vine rising out of the water, fitted with a wooden cover with an old Chinese coin and a wooden stand

Collection of Chōhyō Tamaki (1829-1901).