Jar of porcelain, painted in underglaze blue with scenes from the drama "Xi Xiang Ji" (The West Chamber). Of bulbous form with wide mouth and broad base, unglazed underneath. Round the middle are two landscape scenes, one with a lady sitting beside a table, on which is a smoking incense-burner, approached by an attendant carrying a harp in its case, the other with a lady and attendant standing beside a large tripod; in both scenes the constellation of the Great Bear is depicted in the sky. Round the base of the jar is a border of panels containing detached flowers; on the shoulder below narrow borders of fret-pattern and scrollwork, a row of panels of cloud-scroll outline each enclosing a phoenix.