Each dish has rounded sides that flare towards the rim, and interiors decorated in famille rose enamels with sprays of fruiting and flowering double-gourd vines, the flowers being composed of small, pink double-gourds, all against an iron-red ground below a gilt ruyi border at the rim. The exteriors are decorated with four roundels, each containing the characters fu lu shou xi (good fortune, wealth, longevity, happiness) and encircled by five bats (wufu) and ruyi heads within a gilt border set against a yellow and pale iron-red sgraffito ground of fret pattern between ruyi borders. The base is covered by yellow enamel with an auspicious ribbon-tied emblem in the centre.
6¾ in. (17 cm.) diam., boxes

Acquired in Taipei in the 1980s