Dish with Buddhist emblems, Ming dynasty, Chenghua mark and period, AD1465–87, Jingdezhen, Jiangxi province. Porcelain with underglaze blue decoration. Height: 40 mm, Diameter: 192 mm. Sir Percival David Foundation of Chinese Art, PDF,B.627 © 2017 Trustees of the British Museum

Porcelain dish. Underglaze blue with band of scrolling Buddhist emblems entwined in leaves around the exterior and inside cavetto. Large central roundel with a Buddhist wheel supported on a lotus flower. There is an inscription on the base. 

This dish is painted in underglaze blue with the 八吉祥 (ba ji xiang ‘Eight Buddhist Emblems’), supported by flowering lotus scroll. These Eight Buddhist Emblems are the endless knot, lotus flower, canopy, conch shell, treasure vase, wheel of the law, twin fish and banner or standard of victory. There is a six-character Chenghua reign mark written in a double ring on the base.