A Chinese porcelain plate painted in late Ming export style with, in the centre, a star-shaped panel with a river landscape in blue with touches of enamel, with a pavilion, trees, a bridge and a distant pagoda, and round the rim, 16 radial panels filled with alternating peony, lotus and other floral motifs.

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