the delicately potted U-shaped body rising from a short foot to a flared rim, the exterior brightly painted with a white prunus tree growing by craggy rockwork, representing the eleventh month, the reverse with a poetic inscription relating to the depicted flowers, followed by a seal reading Shang (appreciation), the base with a six-character mark in underglaze blue. 

Provenance: Sotheby's Hong Kong, 30th October 2002, lot 309.