The pear-form body supported on a short foot, rising to a slender neck and slightly flared rim, decorated to the exterior with three joyous Buddhist lions in underglaze-red with eyes detailed in underglaze-blue, the animals are divided by floral sprays and insects in iron-red and gilding, a pearl band around the neck and below the rim are alternating large and small pointed leaves, the recessed base glazed. Period: Kangxi (1662-1722). Height c. 14.5 cm.

Provenance:
The collection of Herbert Küttim (1901-1984). Küttim grew up in Estonia. During the Second World War, he and his family fled the country and settled in Sweden in 1944. An entrepreneur involved in many different ventures, Küttim discovered his passion for porcelain during a trip to London in the 1950s. Over the following decades, he returned to London numerous times, loading his blue Chevrolet with antique porcelain to bring back to Sweden. Some pieces remained in his personal collection, while others were sold.
Thence by descent within the family.