With compressed globular body, moulded sides and a tall slender neck, set with a chilong-form handle, decorated in underglaze blue, the body painted with two large medallions containing peonies against a ground of leafy scrolls below a bird in flight, with two smaller peony medallions to the neck, a diaper work border at the mouth rim further decorated with lotus blooms, the base glazed. Period: Qianlong (1736?1795). Height: 28.5 cm.