The dish is of oval quartrefoil shape, the centre is painted with four butterflies and bees flying above and perched on flowering peony branches within a mauve lattice border. The reverse has four panels of flowers on a ground of pink and blue flowers with brown and black foliage.

Literature: Anthony du Boulay, The Duberly Collection of Chinese Art at Winchester College (Winchester, 2019), p. 130

Provenance: Bequeathed as part of the Duberly Collection, 1978; purchased by Major Montagu and Lady Eileen Duberly from John Sparks, 31 July 1967 (£370); sold Christie’s, London, 20 March 1967, lot 106

Location: Treasury, Gallery 2