A Chinese, porcelain jar of globular form with a short straight neck and two pairs of attachment handles, the cover a shallow dome with wide overhanging rim, both glazed with an uneven purple, the body painted with a sparrow in a branch of yellow blossoms with pink flowers & green foliage along the opposite face, the cover with pink, yellow, and green birds atop a container with a floral arrangement, yellow blossoms in the near distance, a teal Buddhist lion finial in the center. H.8 3/4in.(22cm), D.7 in.(17.6cm)