finely potted with deeply rounded sides rising from a countersunk base, impressed to the interior with a design of a peacock in flight, clasping a long stem in its beak, all amidst meandering peony scroll, the well with a cloud scroll below a keyfret band at the rim, all beneath an ivory-white transparent glaze, pooling in the recesses, the rim unglazed.

Provenance: Berwald Oriental Art, London and New York.

Note: A similar design of a peacock amidst peonies is seen on a slightly larger footed Ding dish in the collection of the National Palace Museum was included in their exhibition Decorated Porcelains of Dingzhou. White Ding wares from the collection of the National Palace Museum, Taipei, 2014, cat. no. II.126.