Depicted crouching on all fours and terminating in a long tapering tail curling upwards at the end,the muscular contours of the beast,possibly a stylised tiger,superbly rendered with rounded outlines, incised overall with double-line scrollwork,the prominent snout rendered ferocious with an open mouth baring its fangs below oval eyes,the lustrous stone of a variegated celadon colour accentuated with attractive russet veining.