Description: Of deep curving sides with wide?everted?rim, the interior incised with two leaping dragons picked-out in green and aubergine enamels contending a flaming pearl?amid clouds and flame motifs, the deep cavetto with flowering?sprigs,?the rim with six?dragons in alternating aubergine and green enamels in pursuit of flaming pearls, with?four larger dragons beneath a band of cranes and clouds to the?underside, all reserved on a rich egg-yolk yellow ground, the base with a four-character? 'Chu Xiu?Gong Zhi' seal mark in underglaze-blue, 18.5 inch diameter. Provenance: Estate of Professor Daniel Lee, Annapolis, Maryland, by descent.