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This massive hard wood pot, carved of a single piece of wood was given to a nordic aristocrat before the fall of Pu-yi.
The measurements of the item is (33 cm/13 inches tall and 30 cm/11,8 inches across at the top. The weight is 13,9 kilograms / 490 ounce

It has been stored away the past 100 years or so and did not get any sort of treatment since the find of it some months back, why it might look "tired". All which has been done is washing off dust with clean cold water on a cotton cloth.

There are still little remains of some sort of lacquer near the edges of the carved areas which goes around the pot, so it seems like the whole pot might had some sort of lacquer from the beginning.

Could anyone give their opinion on what kind of wood we are looking at and is it possible to date it within a specific emperor when looking at the style of it ?

Thank you very much
Madsen

urm, nope.
It's lignum vitae.
English.
Quite early, I would say 17th century, so period wise similar to Ming, but it's not Chinese.

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