The vase is painted in vivid tones of underglaze blue, in imitation of ‘heaping and piling’, with four women holding various objects, below a band of foliate scroll in-between upright leaves and a pendent ruyi collar at the waisted neck. The base is encircled by a band of upright lotus panels above a band of demi-florettes on the splayed foot, all between a band of upright ruyi lappets at the base and of band of knobbed scroll bordered by upright leaves and a stylised ruyi collar at the waisted, flaring neck, a band of lotus encircling the foot.20 cm tall, 21 cm wide