Decorated in Ming style with simulated ‘heaping and piling’ with a shaped cartouche on each side, one enclosing a fruiting and flowering peach branch, the other a fruiting lychee branch, each flanked by ascending flower stems, all between a band of petal lappets below and bands of foliate scroll and upright leaves on the neck, the curved strap handle decorated with detached lingzhi sprigs and applied on top with a foliate scroll, the curved spout decorated with leafy meander above a ruyi border and joined to the neck by a cloud-shaped strut.
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