An Unusual Famille Rose Porcelain Dish, Late Yongzheng or Early Qianlong c.1730 - 1745. The fantastical rich design is painted with a purple and green tree with white, pink and red flowers and a large flowering peony. The branches and sky are busy with mythical as well as real birds. These include a phoenix, kingfishers and a white crane carrying a scroll suspended with a red ribbon from its beak. The enamels are typical of the early phase of Famille Rose. The deep rose-red enamels are of a rich hue and painted over white enamels or mixed with allot of white to create a thick opaque pink. There is also a large amount of thick white enamel employed, some of which has thin green enamel painted on and bleed into the opaque white enamel. There is a space that appears as if it were too small to add another bird, the solutions was to add a flying insect.