Chinese. The white stone worked in the form of a lobed floral bloom with delicate rounded walls rising steeply from the foot, one side elegantly tapering into an openwork handle modelled in the form of a ram's head depicted turned to one side, the exterior of the vessel decorated in low relief with a band of upright acanthus leaves, all supported on a splayed foot depicted as a lotus bloom with furled petal tips radiating from a rounded center. Qing Dynasty period.

Height: 1 1/2 in (3.5 cm) Length: 4 3/4 in (12.0 cm) Width: 3 3/4 in (9.5 cm)