decorated in the famille-rose palette with a central medallion containing a vigorous two-horned, five-clawed confronting dragon clasping a flaming pearl amid cloud scrolls. The medallion is enclosed by a narrow key-fret band, with a border of scrolling flowers and five bats (wu fu) on a yellow ground to the cavetto. The reverse is painted with three bold running dragons, partly hidden by clouds, against a yellow ground, and with a phoenix medallion in shades of blue on a white ground to the base.

Five bats represent the Five Blessings: long life, riches, health, love of virtue and a natural death.

Arapova illustrates a very similar dish in Chinese Painted Enamels, no. 137, pl. 82; and for another, see Gillingham, Chinese Painted Enamels, no. 49, p. 46.