The deep rounded sides well carved in relief with birds perched amidst various flowering branches and rocks reserved against a diaper ground above a plain petal-barbed band rising from the countersunk foot, with silver liner, the base lacquered blackish brown.

Note: Compare the red lacquer bowl also carved with birds in flight amidst plants rising from rocks, and with a silver liner, illustrated by K. J. Brandt in Chinesische Lackarbeiten, Linden Museum, Stuttgart, 1988, pp. 94-5, no. 44.