Following a Sassanian metal prototype, the upright cylindrical body rising from a short straight foot, painted in copper red with characteristic 'heaping and piling', with a large composite floral meander, the open blooms including peony, musk mallow, lotus, camellia and chrysanthemum enclosed by scrolling stems with their characteristic leaves, the top of the rounded shoulder with a raised band with pendent lappets enclosing ruyi-shaped trefoils, all below a tall cylindrical neck painted with scrolling dianthus between classic scroll and keyfret borders, set to one side with a spout of S-shaped profile and rectangular section, pierced at the tip with a double-gourd-shaped aperture and painted with ruyi borders, the other side with a wide grooved strap handle, painted with detached floral and lingzhi sprigs, the foot ring with a classic scroll band.