Double-gourd vase, Wanli period, c. 1575 - c. 1600, blue and white porcelain, h 51cm × d 7cm. AK-NM-6664. © Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam.

Big bottle with unglazed bottom which remains furnace sand. The bottle is shaped like a double gourd and is decorated in underglaze blue. The body is painted with a garden scene with Shoulao and the Eight Immortals and their servants. The top portion of the bottle shows a goddess and a woman sitting in a garden, both with their servants. Around the foot a band with lotus panels. The two waist straps with flying cranes and flower tendrils. The neck is decorated with a ' ruyi' pattern above a band of lotus scrolls.