Potted with a slightly everted rim and steep rounded walls rising from an angled base, supported on a delicate foot ring, the interior freely carved with meandering lotus blossoms, all under a translucent ivory-white glaze pooling in the recesses, the rim bound in metal, wood box.
Note: Compare a similar example in the Tokyo National Museum illustrated in Oriental Ceramics, vol. 1, Kodansha Series, Japan, 1982, no. 9.
Christie's. Important Chinese Ceramics and Works of Art, 1 June 2011, Convention Hall