of cylindrical form, the exterior densely carved in various levels of relief with a continuous heavenly landscape scene with figures, depicting on one side a procession of peasants and ladies riding on scrolling clouds carrying various tools and weapons, journeying towards a city gate, in a distance further figures seated on a cart following another group climbing up the mountains, opposite another group on the other side of the mountain about be engaged in combat with a troop of warriors, the reverse with two fully armed warriors carrying weapons threatening a group of ladies in the city, all amidst elaborate tiered pavilions and cragged rockwork with trees and shrubs, the rim encircled by the beribboned bajixiang (Eight Buddhist Emblems), the stepped foot with a key-fret band between lotus lappets, the ivory patinated to a creamy tone