Heavily cast with deep rounded sides supported on three gilt-bronze elephant-head feet,each with long curled tusks,flanked at the sides by a pair of elephant-heads,their upturned trunks forming the handles,the body decorated in bright cloisonne enamels with dense scrolling lotus blooms,the domed cover with three ruyi shaped panels similarly decorated with scrolling lotus blooms,all surrounded by finely and intricately cast gilt openwork with further scrolling lotus,surmounted by a naturalistically rendered recumbent elephant richly adorned across the body with a harness,with an enamel decorated saddle draped over its back supporting the gilt-bronze finial cast as a small offering bowl with an ornately decorated gilt-bronze cover.