Of globular form rising from a short spreading foot to a tall cylindrical neck with a gently flared mouth, fitted with a globular side spout, the porcelain stopper retained by a silver chain and collar. Finely painted in underglaze cobalt blue, the body is divided into alternating broad, lobed panels depicting cranes in flight amidst cloud scrolls and narrow diaper-pattern compartments. The shoulder is encircled by a border of pearl roundels alternating with geometric reserves, while the neck is decorated with a band of upright plantain leaves below a narrow collar of scrolling foliage at the rim. The globular spout is similarly divided into panels of stylised floral sprays and pearl roundels.

此壺圓腹，下承矮而外撇的圈足，上接高直筒頸，口沿微撇，器側置球形流，瓷塞以銀鏈及銀箍與壺身相連。通體以青花繪飾，腹部以寬窄相間的縱向開光分隔，寬幅葵瓣形開光內繪雲中飛鶴，窄幅則填飾錦地紋。肩部環飾連珠紋與幾何開光，彼此相間。頸部繪一周仰蕉葉紋，口沿下飾窄幅纏枝花葉紋。球形流亦分格裝飾折枝花卉及連珠紋。

Reference:

• Groninger Museum, The Netherlands, object no. 1984.0246 for a quasi identical example from the Hatcher Cargo, also illustrated by Maura Rinaldi in 'Kraak Porcelain: A Moment in the History of Trade', p. 176, pl. 223. (link)

• Another closely related example is in the Topkapi Palace Museum Collection, Turkey, see J. Ayers, R. Krahl, 'Chinese Ceramics in the Topkapi Saray Museum, Istanbul. Yuan and Ming Dynasty Porcelains', vol. II, p. 756, no. 1400.

• For identical examples from the Hatcher Cargo, see Colin Sheaf, Richard Kilburn, 'The Hatcher Porcelain Cargoes. The Complete Record', p. 41, pl. 48.