Two dishes on footring, spreading sides. Famille verte, the biscuit decorated in enamel colours with fruit-bearing peach and pomegranate sprays and covered with a transparent lead glaze. Outlines and details painted in black. Incised under the glaze in the biscuit a decoration of two dragons chasing a flaming pearl between clouds. On the outside two elongated flower sprays and a similar incised decoration. The base glazed white with the six-character mark Kangxi in a double circle. Such dishes with an incised decoration and enamels painted on the biscuit (fired but unglazed porcelain) are some of the finest pieces of this type that were produced for the Imperial Court. Comparable examples are in the National Museum in Taiwan, in the Shanghai Museum, and elsewhere. There are later imitations, similarly with a Kangxi mark. The highly accomplished painting, the accuracy of the incised decoration, and the soft cream colour of the biscuit of these two dishes justify a dating to the Kangxi period.