This bottle, which resembles a gourd, has a figural decoration on both sides. The outline is rather clumsily sketched in black, and the figures stand out in reserve against a cobalt blue background. On one side, the composition showing a hunter with a gun who takes aim at a fleeing stag is balanced by a heron with its neck strained backwards as though about to fly off in a panic. The other side shows a bearded man, hands held up against his chest, walking towards a young woman kneeling in front of a dish of fruit, which she appears to be carefully arranging. Behind the young woman two birds sit perched in a schematic bush. The space left free is taken up with different vegetal elements consisting mainly of large, veined, fleshy leaves. The surface of the bottle is not smooth, the design is molded in very low relief.
The bottle belongs to the general category of pieces with underglaze painting in blue and black on a white ground, but it is one of the few examples which reveal the influence of contemporary Iranian arts of the book rather than the more habitual influence of Chinese porcelain. The only distant echo we have here of Chinese porcelain from the Yuan period (fourteenth century) is provided by the motifs of veined leaves.