A small Chinese doucai water pot or brush washer, the globular body painted with four bats and lotus flowers embellished by scrolling tendrils with a ruyi-head band at the rim and a lappet band at the foot, the complete design is finely outlined in underglaze blue filled in with polychrome enamels, and the flat circular base in centered by a Qianlong six-character seal mark, but not of the period, 5 cm high