Exquisitely potted with a short circular recessed foot, the gently curving sides rising to a flat lipped rim, the interior dominated by a ferocious forward-facing dragon, its five-talon claws outstretched in pursuit of the flaming pearl decorated in the form of a stylisedshou character, the scaly and muscular body engulfed with flames writhing amidst wispy cloud scrolls within double-lined borders, the inner frieze decorated with four dragons in flight amongst lightning clouds beneath splashing wave border, the cavetto depicting a continuous scene of raging waves interspersed with emerging rockwork piercing through the seas, the base with a six-character Imperial zhuanshu seal mark in underglaze-blue.