with square body and sloping shoulders, two panels with prunus and bamboo growing from stylized rockwork, two panels with a lone figure walking along a craggy path in a watery landscape going towards two small houses shaded by trees, in the background another house nestled in the hillside and a pagoda, further mountains, cloud-work and the sun, the shoulder with flowers, the cover similarly decorated.
Literature
for examples of this shape of flask, see plate 79, page 91?Chinese Ceramics in the Collection of the Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam: The Ming and Qing Dynasties?, by Prof. Christiaan J. A. Jorg, published by Rijksmuseum Museum, Amsterdam land Philip Wilson London 1997.