A CHINESE TIBETAN-STYLE EWER, PENBA HU, 19TH/20TH CENTURY

Reference: ART1008648

The globular body raised on a spreading pedestal foot and rising to a stepped neck and a flower-shaped mouth rounding inwards to a narrow opening, with an applied curved spout issuing from the gaping jaws of the moulded makara head, decorated around the body with roundels enclosing gilt Tibetan characters, set between a band of ruyi heads and a petal lappet border, stylized with gilt floral leafy sprays on an iron-red ground. The bottom with a Chinese Qianlong seal mark.
Height: 10.8 cm.