cast with deep rounded sides rising from a short splayed foot to a flaring rim, the exterior enamelled against a turquoise ground with four shaped cartouches, each variously enclosing figurative scenes amongst garden landscapes, the first with an attendant presenting a flower to a seated scholar, the second with a scholar looking back towards a boy carrying a qin, the third with a seated scholar holding a wine cup with an attendant standing beside supporting an ewer, the fourth with a boy offering a vessel to a scholar, all interspersed with the babao on a ground of swirls above lotus lappets, the rim with a chevron band enclosing demi-florets and the foot with a band of swirls, similarly decorated to the interior with a central medallion enclosing a shou character, encircled by four leaping fish alternating with stylised lotus sprays, below a floral band encircling the rim, the turquoise base with a stylised floral medallion