Decorated in famille verte and famille rose enamels and gilt, with foliate-vine border at the edge and with a principal scene on the cover depicting a boy holding a flowering branch while astride a water buffalo next to a calf close by a stream flanked by a willow tree amongst prunus, rocks, and chrysanthemums. Ducks at the water’s edge are painted on the bowl. The central scene of a boy astride a water buffalo was a popular decorative theme throughout the eighteenth century, and the version illustrated here is after a design that dates to the early 1730’s.
