A wine pot with a quatrefoil ovoid section, a high neck, an s-shaped spout and tall arched handle. It stands on four small feet, which are indented to follow the shape of the body. Each lobe of the body, has a landscape with rocks, insects, and birds, painted in several shades of green, red, black, yellow, and aubergine enamels, with some flowers highlighted in gold. The shoulder of the wine pot has two diaper patterns, the sides have a green honeycomb with red starburst; the other two panels green ‘frog-spawn’. The neck is decorated with a chevron pattern in red. The domed lid has the same lobed quatrefoil shape, the four panels are decorated with flower sprays and edged with a green chevron pattern. The handle has been cleverly painted to resemble yellow cane or bamboo. The underside has a glossy transparent glaze.
This type of coloured enamelling, using multiple shades of green, is referred to in the West as famille verte. In China these coloured wares are referred to as wucai (five colours) - particularly when all the coloured enamelling - including blue - were added after the first firing. Although these type of wine pots are often considered export porcelain, this shape with a high handle would have been used in China for serving warm rice wine or holding hot water.
The Metropolitan Museum, New York has a very similar wine pot (inv.nr. 1975.1.1720) as does The Royal Collection Trust, UK (inv.nr. RCN58477).
