The circular body surmounted by a slender tubular neck flanked by a pair of scroll handles, painted in washes of cobalt blue accentuated with simulated 'heaping and piling', the globular body decorated withflowers issuing from leafy stems, below a stiff-leaf band and foliate collar around the neck and above a band of upright lappets near the foot, all reserved on a yellow ground, six character Xuande mark below theneck. Height 11 in.