black and iron-red enamels with gilt on underglaze blue decorated dragons and a central sacred pearl, the reverse with lappets and peony sprays, 52.2cm diameter/Provenance: Possibly Sir Francis Blundell, 3rd Bt (1643-1707), thence by descent/Literature; MH Blutley, Ombersley Court, Inventories of Heirlooms, 1863, p.76; possibly 'China /A beautiful Oriental dish', Arthur Oswald, Country Life, 'Ombersley Court', 2 January 1953, p.34 illustrated in the Entrance Hall/see illustration