Boldly painted in varying shades of cobalt blue with, in the centre a large leaping dragon amidst clouds and flames around a stylised shou character in the curve of its body, encircled around the well by a band of four striding sinuous dragons, the everted rim painted with crested waves, the exterior with a continuous frieze of jagged rocks issuing from turbulent waves, the base inscribed with a six-character mark in underglaze blue of Qianlong. Period: 20th century. Diameter: 40 cm.