the cylindrical body spiritedly painted in bright tones of cobalt blue with two qilin, in mutual gaze, each standing on a rocky promontory emerging from roiling, cresting waves, above an open-beaked bird soaring low in search of prey, the neck with a single raised fillet and a series of crenellated, scroll and ruyi-head borders. Height 46cm Width 18cm PROVENANCE: Collection of Walter F. Price (b. 1858), San Francisco, acquired from Vickery, Atkins and Torrey, San Francisco in the 1920s-30s.