Of round deep form with foliate edge, exquisitely enamelled with a scene of ladies at leisure on a terrace, one reading, a group admiring a scroll, children playing, nearby the branches of two old trees give shade to a man carrying a ruyi sceptre, on the tables vases of flowers and in the distance a striking blue sky, the inner wall of the basin with writhing dragons, the outer wall decorated with playful chilong in blue enamel against a white background scattered with blossoms, under the rim green cracked ice pattern, the base painted with a central fantastic pink beast reserved on a blue ground. Period: Qianlong (1736-1795). Diameter: 41.5 cm.