Painted in underglaze-blue, enamels and gilding with a leafy branch with peonies, bamboo leaves and other flowers and a butterfly within underglaze-blue concentric circles, the rim with a band of iron-red scrolling foliage reserved with chrysanthemums, the reverse with two flowering branches in underglaze-blue and iron-red, 29.2cm across, crossed swords mark and K in the centre and / inside footrim in underglaze-blue, incised 2 inside footrim
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Provenance:Anon. sale, Sotheby Parke Bernet, New York, 5 May 1977 (part);Anon. sale, Christie's London, 4 July 1988, lot 73A similar dish in the Dr. Ernst Schneider Collection, Munich, is illustrated by J. Weber, Mei?ener Porzellane mit Dekoren nach ostasiatischen Vorbildern, II (2013), no. 41.