The center of the interior is decorated with a five-clawed dragon leaping against a background of cresting waves, and on the exterior with eight further dragons on a similar ground. An apocryphal Chenghua mark is on the base.

Provenance: J. M. Hu (1911-1995) Collection. 
Wedding gift to H. H. Hu, early 1930s, and thence by descent to the present owner. 

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