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finely potted with deep rounded sides rising to a gently flaring rim, supported on a tall splayed stem with a sealed flat base, superbly painted around the exterior in deep shades of underglaze blue accented with 'heaping and piling', the cup with two ferocious dragons striding amongst scrolling clouds above turbulent waves, each with a pair of wings springing from carefully detailed scaly bodies, their muscular legs terminating to sharp claws, their mouths opened revealing sharp fangs, all between double-line borders encircling the rim and waist of the cup, the stem decorated with vaporous scrolling clouds above evenly spaced, pointed jagged rocks, the interior of the cup left white and inscribed with a six-character reign mark within double circles repeated at the rim, the base unglazed, revealing the smooth white biscuit