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modelled on an Islamic metal or jade prototype, the globular body painted with stylised blooms, each carefully picked out with feathery petals, all borne on an undulating stem issuing leafy tendrils, between a key-fret band at the shoulder and a classic scroll around the foot, the wide, straight neck partly scalloped and painted with similar petals enclosing spearhead lappets, separated from the body by a raised rib, the handle with a protruding flange, painted with evenly spaced dots within double line borders and terminating to a trefoil pencilled with ruyi scrollwork, inscribed with a horizontal six-character reign mark on the globular body just below the key-fret opposite the handle, the recessed base unglazed, revealing the buff-coloured body