the compressed globular body rising to a long slender neck and wide splayed flange encircling rim, the exterior painted in a red glaze with a winged, flve-clawed, fish-tailed dragon, the fierece and powerful creature depicted en face with open jaws and outstretched wings, writhing around a "flaming pearl", surrounded by flames and clouds in tri-color glazed, the base inscribed in underglaze blue with a six-character reign mark written in two columns H:9.4 in; W:1.7 in