A small parcel-gilt bronze 'three friends of winter' bottle vase, 17th century | 十七世紀 銅局部鎏金歲寒三友圖小長頸瓶

A small parcel-gilt bronze 'three friends of winter' bottle vase

17th century

十七世紀 銅局部鎏金歲寒三友圖小長頸瓶

the compressed globular body supported on a slightly splayed foot and rising to a tall waisted flaring neck, cast in relief with flowering prunus, pine branches, and bamboo sprigs, a row of ruyi heads encircling the base of the neck and a row of raised bosses below the mouth

Height 4 in., 10.2 cm