A PALE GREENISH WHITE JADE BIXI-FORM WATER DROPPER

A similar jade bixi-form water pot, also with an ear-cup extending from the mouth of the beast, that still retains the removable water dropper, in the collection of the National Palace Museum, Taipei, dated to the seventeenth century, late Ming to early Qing period, is illustrated in Through the Prism of the Past: Antiquarian Trends in Chinese Art of the 16th to 18th century, Taipei, 2003, p. 47, pl. I-21. See, also, another bixi-form greenish white jade water pot of this type sold at Christie's, New York, 22-23 March 2012, lot 1986.