A very fine large famille rose dish, enameled with eight magpies in two prunus trees, continuing to the underside, with four more magpies and polychrome lingzhi, Yongzheng mark and Period, in a double circle, Magpies (Xique) are frequently seen in Chinese art as their name is a homophone for "happiness", twelve Magpies signify for joy all day (the Chinese day has twelve hours), Xi combined with plum, which also means eyebrow, can mean "May you receive happiness up the your eyebrows"