A pair of rare wine warmers in turquoise-ground, with white peach finials of gold gilt upon their covers. They are decorated with pink medallions featuring the phoenix and peonies design, as well as the Eight Buddhist Emblems borders on the edges of the covers and top part of the wine warmers.
The bell shaped wine cups that can be placed inside the wine warmers are decorated with luxuriant pink peonies against a turquoise-ground. Wine warmers are very rare items in Peranakan Chinese (Straits Chinese) homes as the Babas seldom drank Chinese wine or liquor, instead preferring brandy or whiskey like their colonial masters.
Reference: https://www.facebook.com/royale7phoenix.straitschinese.peranakan/
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