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Vase in hard-paste porcelain, upright collar with broad shoulder and globular upper body, tapering to a flaring foot; hand-painted over the body in underglaze blue with flowers, scrolls and trellises, aside from two reserves either side of the body with partial overpainting of blue areas with iron red enamel in a mosiac/scale pattern picked out with black enamel and gilding, both reserves overpainted in polychrome enamels with different scenes of 'Mandarin' style figures outside a pagoda, to the neck isa simple band of blue underglaze pattern above a band of ovals of red enamel with gilded diamond shapes inbetween.