of tall baluster shape, intricately carved around the body in a high-relief with a continuous panorama of a thriving community, depicting farmers, merchants, and figures on horseback and oxen, all dressed in typical Ming garments, among a tiered landscape punctuated with cliffs, pine, paulownia and wutong trees, temples, pagodas, and gates, between folded lotus lappets at the shoulder and foot, above a waisted section at the foot carved with lotus scrolls, the waisted neck carved with four friezes of interior scenes, exhibiting in detail figures and dogs interacting among Ming-style furniture, below a low-relief border of ruyi-head lappets, the short upright neck finely carved with stylized keyfret design, the motif repeated on the bottom of the cover as well as the foot, the cover surmounted by an elaborate finial carved with further figures on a pagoda and tree-filled summit, the interior of the cover incised with a melon borne on a scrolling vine,