Of round flattened form with short necks and tall feet, the shoulders with handles in the form of confronting dragons, the bodies brightly enamelled with mirrored cartouches painted on one side with a hunting scene depicting a dignitary, richly attired on a piebald pony, and his entourage hunting deer, in the background a mountainous landscape, and on the other side painted with two long-tailed birds perched on stylised rock-work from which peonies issue, beside the rock-work an old magnolia tree with a pair of birds seated on a branch, all reserved on densely decorated blue grounds of flower heads and pomegranates, the narrow sides with shou-characters in gold, the necks also with a shou-character, the bases with red square seal marks. Period: 19th century. Height: 49 cm.