Formed in three sections: the largest comprising the tall baluster-form body, its eight baluster-shaped tulip nozzles decorated with ruyi-head and foliate motifs and rising from a floral-patterned blue-ground lappet border
above two rows of petal-shaped panels painted alternately with vases of flowers and on the upper row flowering plants growing around a pierced rock, or on the bottom row floral sprays, some with perched birds, all above flowering vine, floral lappet, demi-ruyi-head and foliatescroll borders on the lower body, knopped ankle and bell-shaped domed base; the small circular mid section forming a ruyi-head- and petal-bordered receptacle and collar for the upper section, a smaller version of the tall vase below, similarly decorated with one row of five petal-shaped panels of flower-filled vases or floral sprays beneath five tulip nozzles issuing from a blue-ground floral lappet border and encircling a trumpet-shaped neck decorated with blossoms and foliate scrolls below an everted rim with a flowering vine border.
A distinghuished Manhattan collector
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