A SILVER-INLAID BRONZE ‘DRAGON AND PHOENIX’ VASE, HU.Qing Dynasty, 18th Century.Cast with a globular body rising from a splayed stepped foot to a waisted ribbed neck and a flared mouth-rim, the shoulders cast with a pair of taotie mask handles suspending loose rings with silver inlay, the body finely inlaid in silver with alternating dragon and phoenix roundels, above a leiwen and lappet band at the foot, further lappet, ruyi head and leiwen bands to the neck, six character Xuande mark to base.22.7cm H.2.377kg.清十八世紀 銅錯銀龍鳳紋雙活環耳壺，「大明宣德年製」款