with a cylindrical body surmounted by a constricted neck and galleried rim, the body finely enamelled in the rose-verte palette with a lavish and vibrant continuous scene depicting a pair of phoenix perched on green jagged rocks, each of the mythical birds rendered with its stylised ruyi-crested head turned over its back to face the other, the verdant setting populated with several pairs of birds, including a pair of magpies in the branches of a magnolia tree, above a pair of mandarin ducks swimming in a pond accentuated with pink and blue lotus blooms and green lily pads, the reverse of the vibrant design with a pair of cranes perched on a gnarled tree trunk emerging from dense clusters of multi-coloured floral blooms picked out in yellow, pink, red and blue, including mallow, iris and large peony blooms, further decorated with a pair of sparrows portrayed in flight near a butterfly, all below a frieze encircling the neck with cartouches of crabs and shrimp, separated by yellow chrysanthemum blooms borne on stylised and floral scrolls on a stippled green ground, the cylindrical neck with a pair of kingfishers amidst bright pink lotus and large green lily leaves, all below a key-fret band encircling the rim, the base with an underglaze-blue double circle