Finely and sturdily potted with a rectangular baluster body rising from a splayed foot to a waisted neck and flared rim, the neck flanked by a pair of stylized archaistic animal handles, each of the main sides decorated with a ferocious dragon with outstretched claws and a scaly body coiling sinuously around a 'flaming pearl', the two shorter sides decorated with two meticulously rendered phoenix, precisely and delicately detailed with fine plumage and long billowing tail feathers, all between a key-fret band and an upright lappet border encircling the lower body. The base inscribed with a six-character seal mark. Height 15 in.