finely potted with deep rounded sides rising from a short splayed foot to an everted rim, the exterior meticulously decorated in variegated tones of rose pink, yellow and iron red with an opulent design of luxuriant stylised budding and blooming floral blossoms, including lotus, anemone and honeysuckle, the flower heads rendered borne on undulating stems issuing curling foliage, all against a blue ground picked out in the sgraffiato technique with dense feathery arabesques, all between a gilt rim and footring, the gilt-rimmed domed cover similarly decorated with three large floral blooms issuing from foliate scrolls bearing smaller flowers, all reserved on a sgraffiato blue ground, the base of the bowl and centre of the finial enamelled turquoise and centred with an underglaze-blue six-character seal mark within a white cartouche