Ling chih fungus and season flowers.
Lotus flowers, fishes, and water weeds.
Floral arabesques (hui hui hua).
Flowers of Paradise (pao hsiang hua)
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The celestial flowers and the flowers of Paradise are no doubt similar designs of idealised flowers in scrolls or groups.[121] The pao hsiang hua, which is given in Giles’s Dictionary as “the rose,” is rendered by Bushell “flowers of Paradise” or “fairy flowers.” Judging by the designs with this name in Chinese works, and also from the fact that the rose is a very rare motive on Chinese wares before the Ch’ing dynasty, whereas the pao hsiang hua is one of the commonest in the Ming lists, Bushell’s rendering is probably correct in the present context.
Animal Motives, mythical or otherwise.
Dragons, represented as pursuing jewels (kan chu); grasping jewels (k’ung chu); in clouds; emerging from water; in bamboo foliage and fungus plants; among water chestnut flowers; among scrolls of Indian lotus; emerging from sea waves and holding up the Eight Trigrams (pa kua); holding up the characters fu
