A Chinese dish

A Chinese dish, painted in underglaze blue, wucai enamels and gilt with a kylin beside bamboo, prunus, flowers and rockwork, beneath a flying phoenix, the cavetto with a leaf scroll border, the base with a rare pentafoil medallion containing a phoenix and cloud scrolls, Kangxi 1662-1722, old restoration to the rim, 30.7cm. From the collection of Professor D R Laurence MD. Provenance: purchased from JAN Fine Art, London. Cf. J Ayers, The Koger Collection, pl.110 for a similar example.