with a finely potted cylindrical body resting on a slightly splayed foot, surmounted by a tapering shoulder and trumpet neck, the body skilfully decorated with eight raised alternating gilt-bordered lobed cartouches, four enclosing inscriptions of poems written in clerical, regular, running and seal scripts, eulogising peony, mallow, lotus and prunus respectively, each followed by two seal marks reading Qianlong and bingxu (in accordance with 1766) respectively, the other four delicately enamelled in shaded pastel tones of the famille-rose palette with clusters of flowering and budding floral blooms, all against a white ground detailed with iron-red feathery scrolls and highlighted with famille-rose floral scrolls, the neck further accentuated with bats suspending chimes, the foot skirted with a key-fret band, the interior and base enamelled turquoise, the base further centred with an iron-red six-character seal mark within a white cartouche