rising from a flat base to a ten gently curved petal-shaped lobes,the body covered all over in a rich and thick soft greyish blue glaze suffused with characteristic crackles in dark grey and golden colors, One the base there are six spur-marks, revealing a blackish biscuit.
A Comparable example is from the Qing court collection and in National Palace Museum, Taipei, published in Guo li gu gong, eds, Ko Ware of the Sung Dynasty, Kongkang: Cafa Co., plate 18, 1962; 2 ) ;a closely related example one almost in the same size in the collection of Palace Museum Beijing, see The Complete Works of Chinese Ceramics, vol.8, Shanghai: Shanghai Renmin Meishu, plate 9, 2000.