carved as a slender vase with scrollwork handles among a flowering tree emerging from a pierced rockwork base, flanked on each side with an immortal standing on the extended branches, one side with a carved chilong, the cover with a lion finial (2)

The vase is affixed to the lamp base and likely drilled to the base. The cover is adhered to the vase. The vase has a chip to the rim. There is a crack to the cloud approximately 3/8 in. (1 cm) long. There is a section of the branch the boy is holding that is missing.
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