Painted with two seated figures playing weiqi in a terraced garden, one of the players has fallen asleep and is dreaming of facing a ferocious dragon, his sword drawn and held high, the border of the plate with five broad banded cartouches, each enclosing a ruyi head and scrolling tendrils, all reserved on a wan character ground, the back of the plate with two mountainous scenes, the centre with a reed organ mark in blue. Period: Kangxi (1662‑1722). Diameter: 26.5 cm.