Of pear-shaped body with eight faceted sides surmounted by a tall tapering neck below the everted mouth, the neck encircled by raised fillets simulating bamboo, covered on the body and base with a lustrous soft pale glaze suffused with dense networks of dark and light russet crackles, 7.8 in high. Provenance: Formerly from the collection of Talbot O'Donovan, U.K., see item #5 on copy of invoice from S. Marchant, London, dated October 30, 1965