A small Chinese imitation-bronze 'inscribed' hu vase

Reference: ART1003313

The vase is decorated with two elephant-head handles to the neck, it is moulded to both sides with a shaped panel enclosing a Qianlong poem in gilt, all below a bat in flight. The vase is splashed with gilt in imitation of a bronze original. The base is incised with an apocryphal Qianlong mark.