Of finely potted slender form with broad rounded shoulders, rising to a slightly waisted neck with lipped rim, vividly painted in deep cobalt blue tone with six ferocious five-clawed dragons, their undulating scaly bodies prancing around the sides and captured in various poses, all reserved on a dense ground of turbulent rolling waves accented with foaming crests, two rugged pierced rocks in textured wash technique emerging from the base, Qianlong mark on base, Qing dynastyH: 36cm , 14 inch