Of deep curving sides with wide everted rim, the interior incised with two leaping dragons picked-out in green and aubergine enamels contending a flaming pearl amid clouds and flame motifs, the deep cavetto with flowering sprigs, the rim with six dragons in alternating aubergine and green enamels in pursuit of flaming pearls, with four larger dragons beneath a band of cranes and clouds to the underside, all reserved on a rich egg-yolk yellow ground, the base with a four-character  'Chu Xiu Gong Zhi' seal mark in underglaze-blue, 18.5 inch diameter. Provenance: Estate of Professor Daniel Lee, Annapolis, Maryland, by descent.