The tall octagonal body supported on a slightly flared foot elegantly rising to broad shoulders rounding to a waisted neck and an everted lipped rim, the exterior painted in a greyish cobalt-blue with two sinuous dragons chasing each other amidst ruyi shaped clouds, all below a band of four ruyi-heads at the shoulders and above a band of petal lappets enclosing pendent cloud-like trefoils and rings at the foot, 18.5 inch high. Provenance: Property from a private estate, Maryland