The first painted by Ma Shaoxuan, dated Summer of 1898. Of miniature rounded-rectangular form, the shoulders sloping to a cylindrical neck, with a flat lip and protruding oval footrim, the interior painted in ink and colors to depict, on one side, a bird perched on the stalk of a lotus plant, a dragonfly hovering above, the reverse with a poem in regular script by the Tang Dynasty poet Liu Yuxin entitled “Visit [to] Xanadu Temple Again.” The inscription may be translated as:
The garden of a hundred acres is half covered by moss.
There’s no more peach blossoms; only cauliflowers grow.
Where did the Taoist who had planted the peach trees go?
The young Liu who had been here before now returns

The second, signed by Ye Bengqi with one seal, circa 1920-1940. The smokey crystal of rounded-rectangular form, with a cylindrical neck, flat lip and protruding oval footrim, colorfully decorated to depict, on one main side, a bird about to land on a lychee branch, the reverse with a long-tailed bird on a peach bough