the slightly tapering body richly decorated and enamelled with two rectangular panels, the front with a bird perched on flowering peonies with butterflies and the moon in the distance, the reverse similarly decorated with 'The Three Friends', against an iron-red ground decorated with scrolls and embellished with large peony heads, enclosing a pair of panels enamelled with Buddhist emblems and flowering blossoms, the shoulders with four foliate medallions enclosed by an enamelled brocaded ground, the neck with a further pair of panels enamelled with sprays of chrysanthemums, enclosed by a cell-diaper ground highlighted with Buddhist emblems, Bernheimer Collection label, John Sparks Ltd paper label, 45cm high