D: 21.1 cm

Similar pieces are in the collection of the Beijing Palace museum, as well as in the Sackler Gallery in the US, and it is featured on the cover of Soame Jenyns’ Later Chinese Porcelain. The painting is complete and characteristic, highlighting the pastel painting style and technique from the Kangxi period of continuing a painting over the edge of a porcelain piece. The style influenced Yongzheng Qianlong porcelain and this is a top quality specimen of the bottom-painted kiln fired plates.