Finely potted with rounded sides, resting on a slightly tapered foot, the decoration delicately incised and painted in green enamel on a bright egg-yolk yellow ground, the interior with a central medallion of radiating lingzhi, the convoluted stems forming a shou character, the exterior with a five-clawed dragon, a male and female phoenix, and a crane in mutual pursuit amid cloud scrolls and flames, below a classic scroll border around the rim, and above a band of upright petals above the foot, the white-glazed base inscribed with the six-character mark within a double circle.
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