Thinly made dish, with a flat, round centre and chrysanthemumpetalled sides curving up to a foliate rim, the low foot similarly lobed and the flat base black. Incised in the centre and filled with gold, an inscription:

吳下髹工巧莫比
仿為或以舊還過
脫胎那用木和錫
成器奚勞琢與磨
博士品同謝青喻
仙人顔侶暈朱酡
事宜師古寍斯謂
擬欲摛吟愧即多
乾隆甲午御題

Wuxia xiugong qiao mo bi
Fang wei huo yi jiu hai guo
Tuotai na yong mu he xi
Cheng qi xi lao zhuo yu mo
Boshi pin tong Xie Qing yu
Xianren yan lü yun zhu tuo
Shiyi shigu ning si wei
Ni yu chi yin kui ji duo
Qianlong jiawu yuti

This poem can be found in the Belles-lettres treasury of the Siku quanshu (‘Complete Library of the Four Treasuries’), in part four, chapter 25 of the subcategory of imperial poems, where it is found under the title:

詠倣永樂朱漆菊花盤

Yong fang Yongle zhuqi juhua pan
In praise of a chrysanthemum dish made in imitation of the vermillion lacquer of the reign of the Yongle emperor.

Text adapted from Chinese and Japanese Works of Art in the Collection of Her Majesty The Queen: Volume III.