Republic Period (1912-1949), Hongxian Nian Zhi iron-red four-character markOf square section, with rounded corners, one double loop handle and raised on three scalloped feet decorated with key-fretBoth delicately painted on the exterior with two swallows flying beside a flowering prunus branch, intertwined with a willow treeEach painted on the interior with a willow brach and a prunus flower