The vase is finely potted with gracefully curving sides rising from a spreading foot to sharp shoulders and a slender neck, flaring at the mouth before sharply inverting. The lower body is impressed and incised with bands of keyfret, pendent archaistic leaves and upright lappets, with taotie masks and archaistic scroll motifs above the angled shoulder and a double band of circles and upright lappets around the neck. The inverted mouth is incised with classic scrolls. The vase is entirely covered in an ivory glaze suffused with crackles, the unglazed foot revealing the smooth white body, box.

Note: Stem bowls of this form and decoration include one illustrated by J. Ayers, The Baur Collection, vol. III, Geneva, 1969, A418-419; another in the National Palace Museum, and illustrated in Special Exhibition of K'ang Hsi, Yung-Cheng and Ch'ien-Lung Porcelain Ware from the Ch'ing Dynasty, Taipei, 1986, no. 83; and one in the Palace Museum, Beijing, illustrated in the catalogue of Special Exhibition in Kaohsiung City, Great National Treasures of China, p. 282, fig. 74.