The dish is decorated to the interior with a shou character within a shaped cartouche, supported by a large lingzhi and surrounded by five cranes in flight amidst clouds and further lingzhi and peach sprigs, all above froth-capped waves crashing against a rock. The exterior is similarly decorated with cranes in flight, Japanese wood box.

Provenance: A Japanese private collection.

Note: Compare two similar examples with this striking design reserved on a rich blue-ground, the first is illustrated in Chinese Ceramics in the Idemitsu Collection, vol. II, no. 706; and a dish formerly from the Avery Brundage Collection now in the Asian Art Museum of San Francisco, illustrated by He Li, Chinese Ceramics, New York, 1996, p. 224, no. 421.