Signed Wang Jian, cyclically dated Wuchen year, corresponding to 1748 and of the period Of cylindrical form raised on three bracket feet, the exterior delicately carved with a bearded scholar holding a long wooden staff and accompanied by an attendant carrying a guqin, strolling in an immense landscape of rugged cavernous mountains dotted with bamboo groves, beneath a pine tree beside a trickling stream, the reverse inscribed with a short poem signed Jingqian laoren (The Elder of One Thousand Mirrors), the base with a sunken well, the warm russet-coloured surface with streaks of golden and darker brown veining. 12.3cm (4 7/8in) high.