Baluster-shaped jar on footring, wide mouth. Transitional porcelain, decorated in underglaze blue with a continuous landscape with a mythical animal near a gate and a banana plant. On the mouthrim half-leaf motifs. The lid is missing. This pot varies from the more common oviform shape and originally had a low domed lid (Little; Butler). This is the same mythical animal as on the kettle, cat. 40, but here it clearly has five-toed paws, like a lion, and the mane is bushier. This could be a pai-tse, a mythical animal described by Schuyler Cammann. The Van Diepen Collection has another bowl with a representation of this creature, not included here (Lunsingh Scheurleer).