The tall ovoid body indented into six lobes rising to a short neck with flared mouth, painted to the exterior with hovering cranes amidst ruyi-shaped clouds with six roundels enclosing Daoist trigrams, all between aclassic scroll band on the shoulder and a coin decorated band encircle the foot, the neck decorated with a band of pendent lappets, base inscribed with a six-character Lung-Ching mark, 12.8 inch high. Provenance:Property from the estate of U.S. Navy Captain Edward Pearce, Dover, Delaware