A rare Chinese Imari export porcelain circular dish, Kangxi period, the centre painted and gilt with an unrolled hand scroll, filled with a prunus branch and bamboo around a single famille verte enamelled bird in flight, reserved against a ground of pencilled underglaze blue scrolling tendrils issuing gilt and iron red lotus flowerheads, unmarked, diameter 35.5cm (minor chips to underside of rim). Note: a similar smaller dish of the same pattern is illustrated by William R. Sargent in 'Treasures of Chinese Export Ceramics: from the Peabody Essex Museum', 2012, page 188, No. 87. Pieces with this decoration are also in the Porzellansammlung and in the Dresden Collection.