The dish is decorated in rich cobalt blue characteristically ‘heaped and pile’ with a central ribbon-tied lotus plant bouquet incorporating saggitaria and a stalk if millet, encircled by a band of composite foliate scroll composed of thirteen blossoms. The body raising to indented rim with a narrow band of classic Ruyi cloud scroll is repeated on the exterior above a similar frieze and a border of key fret. All are within line borders and the base is unglazed. Diameter 13.5''