Asian Works of Art

the first of a rectangular form with indented corners and edges, two sides cast with flowering branches against a diaper ground, flanked by a pair of elephant-head form handles, raised on four beast-mask form supports; the second of rectangular form with rounded corners, the body cast with a rectangular panel with four pairs of confronted chilongs reserved on a diaper ground, having two archaistic dragon-form handles, supported on four lion-mask form feet, the base impressed with four-character maker's mark within a square.