Of circular form, the shallow dish with everted rim, decorated in famille verte enamels, painted to the centre with a yellow scaly fantastic beast with bushy green tail crouching in a terraced garden among pine and rockwork beneath swirling clouds, two small winged insects overhead, all encircled by a border containing eight bats in red, yellow and aubergine enamels, the wide rim decorated with four sinewy chilong in yellow, green and blue enamels reserved against a stylised wave pattern ground, a band of stylised yellow ground ruyi-heads to the rim, the double channeled footrim unglazed, the base glazed and with an artemisia leaf within a double circle in underglaze blue. Diameter: 37 cm.