The brush pot, oval in section and its surface deliberately aged in appearance, is decorated with raised motifs which include bamboo, a tiger beneath the spreading limbs of a pine tree which has a rock at its base, a flowering branch of plum, a scholar on a horse accompanied by an attendant on foot. There is a bird in the pine and another on the plum branch. The stone appears to have been be patinated, stained, and possibly burned in an effort to obtain the weathered surface. The combination of the Han-style figures, with the "Three Friends" motif which became popular during the Southern Song and Yuan dynasties, provides one example of the archaism also in vogue at the time. .