Well potted with deep rounded sides rising to an everted rim, painted on the exterior in vivid cobalt-blue with four carp frolicking in a lotus pond, depicted in various poses swimming amidst water weeds and lotus, all above a band of ruyi heads and below double-lines borders at the rim, the interior with a central medallion enclosing a further fish with double-line dorders repeated at the rim, the base inscribed with the six-chartered mark within a double circle.
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