清十八 / 十九世紀 巧色黄玉臥獸水滴

the recumbent one-horned mythical beast resembling a tapir carved with its legs tucked under its rotund body, its head held aloft with raised snout and puckered lips slightly open forming the spout, its ears pricked back toward a circular aperture on its back, opening to a cavity concealed by a long tubular stopper surmounted by a coiled chilong knob, its bushy tail swished over its left hindleg, the translucent stone of warm yellow colour accented by russet-brown blushes and finished to a smooth polish, wood stand

There is a tiny flake to the left ear of the qilong coiled on the knob, a few minor nicks along the left vertical edge of the mythical beast's flat muzzle, but overall the water dropper is in good condition.
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