Decorated with a pair of slender yellow-spined blueground four-clawed dragons contesting a white-ground flaming pearl to the interior below a formal border with five-petaled flowerheads on a meandering scroll, the reverse side with seven multi-coloured lotus flowerheads at the centre of the foot and further lotus scrolling to the rounded exterior sides
9¹⁄₂in (24.1cm) diameter

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For a larger dish featuring a dragon and phoenix at the center, with a similarly decorated rim and underside, and dated to the early 17th century, refer to Beatrice Quette (ed.), Cloisonné, Chinese Enamels from the Yuan, Ming, and Qing Dynasties, New York, 2011, p. 251, plate 54.
For a large dish depicting two confronted dragons chasing a flaming pearl, dated to the Wanli period (1573–1615), see Enamel Ware in the Ming and Ch’ing Dynasties, National Palace Museum, 1999, p. 79, no. 11.
A larger dish measuring 13 3/4 inches in diameter, decorated with a dragon and phoenix design, was sold at Bonhams, London, on 11 May 2021, lot 246.