The dish is decorated to the interior with a Shou character surrounded by five bats and a decorative floral band on the golden linseed edge, white glazed on the exterior, base with six-characters Yongzheng marks, withsmall rim hairline. D:18.5cm, H:3.8cm Provenance: Prominent Canadian family collection of British decent items acquired c1950-1975. Further provenance: Estate of the late Harry Geoffrey Beasley (1881-1939) aBritish anthropologist and curator of Cranmore Ethnographical Museum.