Finely painted in shades of iron-red and with details picked out in gilt, with a striding five-clawed dragon and a long-tailed phoenix in flight, reserved on a dense ground of undulating peony meander, which is repeated on the domed cover. The decoration on the jar is set between stylised overlapping lotus petals around the foot and cloud collars at the shoulder. The waisted neck is encircled with a further peony scroll between gilt border. H 28 cm.