Each vividly and brightly enamelled with a mythical qilin confronting a phoenix in flight amidst cloud scrolls in a setting of rockwork, peony and pine, encircled by eight cartouches decorated with four various beasts alternating with floral sprays, the everted foliate rims with shaped panels containing butterflies on a diaper-pattern ground.

Provenance: Sotheby's London, 19-21 September 2006, lot 712.
An English private collection. 

Note: A related dish with qilin and phoenix, Kangxi, is illustrated by C.J.A.Jorg, Famille Verte: Chinese Porcelain in Green Enamels, Amsetrdam, 2011, pp.46.