the ovoid body moulded in relief with bianco sopra bianco decoration enclosing two shaped cartouches, each painted with a deer amongst lingzhi fungus, cranes, butterflies and further birds, all before a rocky outcrop with a pine tree, one tree with a mythological animal seated in the branches, the neck decorated with further cartouches, gilt rim, six-character mark in iron-red, rim and footrim with restored chip, 21cm high