the tapering body rising from a short spreading base to broad shoulder and short waisted neck with straight rim, boldly carved with an archaistic dragon writhing sinuously amidst undulating clouds and scrolls meandering across the vessel, classic patterns at the neck, the exterior applied with a lemon yellow glaze, all beneath pooling to a deeper tone at the recesses, the interior left white, the white base inscribed with a Chinese character"Tian(sky)" at the center H: 3 1/4 in