With shallow, rounded sides flaring to a slightly everted rim, the interior decorated with a central lotus blossom surrounded by four similar blossoms borne on enclosing underglaze blue stems with scrolling tendrils and green leaves forming a densely patterned medallion and repeated in a frieze of eight blossoms around the exterior below a narrow border of C-scrolls and dots, all in iron-red, yellow and green glaze and underglaze blue of bright tone within blue double-line borders, Yongzheng mark, 8 1/2". Provenance: Private collection of important estate Dallas, Texas.