of baluster form surmounted by a trumpet neck and flared rim, painted all around in pastel-hued enamels with a dramatic battle scene depicting General Liu Xiu of the Han dynasty driving Wang Xun, the rebel leader, and his army of wild animals out of Kunyang, the action taking place by the city gate with Liu Xiu stationed on top of the gate among officials and generals, and appearing again below at the helm of a mounted army charging through the gate to attack the Xin imperial troops, Wang Xun and his entourage shrouded in a green plume emanating from a double-gourd carried by a demon allied with the insurgents, the shoulder with quatrefoil cartouches enclosing scholar's objects reserved against a brocade ground, the neck with four officials on a balcony offering gifts to the Queen Mother of the West arriving on a cloud accompanied by a phoenix, coll. no. 1578.