QING DYNASTY

Lightly-hollowed and worked as a leaf with incurring edges, the exterior with shallow-relief veining issuing from a stem with further leafy greens and blossoming florets and pods, all extending to the underside in high relief, the interior with an insect clambering up towards the stem, the stand of buff caramel tone rendered in the form a gnarled branch.

H 3 cm, stand.