the cover with a snarling tiger face to one end and a horned bovine animal at the other, the central section with a raised flange and S-scrolls on leiwen ground, the pouring vessel cast with ridged body, archaistic scrollwork to the rim, a loop handle issuing from a bovine mask, all resting on four lion-mask paw feet, archaistic inscriptions to the interiors (2)

Collection of Dr. James M. Henry, Provost of Lingnan University, Canton, China, 1920s.
Acquired Boston 1940s-60s, and thence by descent.