of archaic fangding form, the slightly tapered rectangular body rising to a constricted neck of corresponding form and a square-cut rim surmounted by a pair of openwork angular scroll handles, all supported on four mythical beast mask cylindrical legs, the rim surmounted by a pair of angular scroll handles, the sides decorated in low relief with archaistic mythical beast masks, interrupted by a pair of deer-like mythical beast mask handles on the shorter sides and suspending loose rings, the long sloping sides of the openwork cover decorated with low-relief leafy scrollwork, partially interrupted with a pair of mythical beast masks, the shorter ones with angular scrollwork, all below a stepped open-top finial bordered with two pairs of mythical beast masks, two diagonally suspending archaistic mock handles, the variegated apple-green stone with mottled with subtle grey inclusions