the flattened pear-shaped body supported on a short slightly splayed circular foot, rising to a waisted neck and everted rim, set with an elongated arched spout on one side, the opposite with a slender curved handle surmounted by a small lug and culminating with a protruding flange at the end, each side of the vessel moulded with a raised almond-shaped panel enclosing a scene of an attendant standing before a scholar below a pine tree, surrounded by floral scrolls extending along the spout, the upper neck with beribboned babao emblems below a band of florets encircling the mouthrim, the handle picked out with classic scrollwork, all above a green-ground floret band encircling the footrim, all the details rendered vibrantly in rich tones of the wucai palette, the base with an underglaze-blue six-character reign mark within a double-circle