The shape of this vase is based on the 13th-10th century BCE wine vessel, 'zun,' which provides three decorative registers. In contrast to the bronze-age prototype with raised-line decoration, the vase is decorated with motifs carved into the porcelain before the glaze was applied. The upper portion is decorated with a landscape of a lake and distant hills. Elements of the scene include a thatched hut, a bridge, a fisherman in a boat being pulled by a man with a tow-line, two cottages, woods, fields and distant mountains. Two young dragons, their heads raised back, stretch around the center section, one following the other and separated by a fungus. The lower portion, approximately half the height of the upper, contains a rocky cliff, a river and trees, a fisherman in a boat on a bay, and a thatched hut.