The shallow rounded sides rising from a low, tapered foot to an everted rim, vividly decorated in the wucai palette, the interior with pairs of ascending five-clawed dragons pursuing a 'flaming pearl', confronting descending phoenixes flying toward a foliate peony, within line borders repeated at the rim, further encircled around the cavetto by a continuous scroll of large blossoms in alternating green, iron-red and yellow enamels, the exterior similarly decorated with dragons and phoenix; all together six pairs of dragons and phoenixes are painted on this dish, which can only be seen on wares from Kangxi period. The underside is inscribed with a six-character reign mark in underglaze blue Daqing Kangxi Nianzhi.