This dish is delicately enamelled with flowers and two butterflies above a blue toad on a green leaf. Below there is an aubergine beetle and a green praying mantis, all within an upturned border.

Literature: Anthony du Boulay, The Duberly Collection of Chinese Art at Winchester College (Winchester, 2019), p. 106

Provenance: Bequeathed as part of the Duberly Collection, 1978; purchased by Major Montagu and Lady Eileen Duberly from Bluett & Sons, 17 June 1959 (£32)

Location: Treasury, Gallery 2