The angular hu-shaped body is relief-decorated with a row of ruyi motifs on the tapering lower body and on the shoulder forming a cloud collar between double bow-string borders below the neck which is flanked by a pair of angular scroll handles. The exterior is covered with a glaze of rich, mottled, crushed strawberry-red color streaked in milky lavender-blue that thins to mushroom on the handles, the raised decoration and on the edge of the cupped mouth rim which is a mottled purplish-blue on top above a crackle-suffused, pale greyish-blue-toned, clear glaze streaked in dark mauve on the interior. The base is covered with a mottled yellowish-brown and celadon glaze wash that also covers the reign mark.

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13⁵⁄₈ in. (34.6 cm.) high

Christie's London, 7 November 2006, lot 197.
The Studio of the Clear Garden.