the shallow rounded sides rising from a tapered foot to a broad everted rim, finely incised and enameled in green and two shades of aubergine against a bright-yellow ground with a central shou medallion enclosed within a ruyi-border, surrounded by five bats alternating with lotus blossoms borne on foliate scrolls with attendant buds and enclosed within bands of wavy clouds, the cavetto decorated with eight lotus blossoms rising from bound foliate scrolls, each supporting one of the ribbon-tied Buddhist ‘Eight Auspicious Emblems’, all below eight shou medallions alternately flanked by confronting pairs of stylized chilong and kuifeng, all within a beaded rim, the exterior wall decorated with three fruiting peach branches interspersed with pairs of bats, the base glazed white, with an underglaze blue six-character mark within a double circle