Vase

A Chinese porcelain vase of baluster-shaped, with waisted neck, cupped mouth and spreading foot. On the shoulder are a pair of lugs, moulded and pierced, in the form of bats. Painted round the sides is a lingzhi fungus scroll, and on the neck, bats and three-pointed ruyi-head cartouches.
Text adapted from Chinese and Japanese Works of Art in the Collection of Her Majesty The Queen: Volume II.