Circa 1640 Delicately incised with three evenly-spaced medallions enclosing a foliate blossoming and budding lotus bloom, each flanked by a pair of trefoil cloud-scrolls, all framed between a border of waves within a scrolling zigzag around the high shoulders and a dense floral and foliate border above the unglazed lobed rim, all covered with a glaze of soft and very pale turquoise tone except the interior and rim, the bell fitted with a bronze hanging loop decorated with a pair of hongmu carved lion cubs playing with a ball, hongmu stand. The bell, 19.5cm (7 3/4in) high (2).