Garden seat

The garden seat is drum-shaped and octagonal, with rounded sides, flat top and flat ring foot, two opposite sides being pierced with a single cash emblem. The sides are moulded with rows of studs above and below, picked out in gilt. Painted round the body on a lavender blue ground is a design of eight variously coloured dragons, ascending or descending among clouds above a sea of white topped green waves. Above is a broad band of formalised dragon key-fret in white and blue, reserved on a yellow ground. The top is painted with clouds.
Text adapted from Chinese and Japanese Works of Art in the Collection of Her Majesty The Queen: Volume II.