The deep sides rising from a straight foot ring to a foliate rim, decorated in shades of underglaze blue with the ‘Three Friends of Winter’, pine, prunus and bamboo, issuing from stylised rockwork, spotted deer are shown below the pine, birds perch on the prunus branches and monkeys clamber on peach trees, painted to the interior with a man standing upright on rolling waves while playing a flute, the glazed base with the six-character mark of Chenghua within a double circle in underglaze blue. Period: Kangxi (1662-1722). Diameter: 16.5 cm.