DATED BY INSCRIPTION TO WANLI CYCLICAL XINMAO YEAR, CORRESPONDING TO 1591 AND OF THE PERIOD

Four similar examples with the same pale celadon glaze and underglazed blue eight-character mark on the base are known., These include one from the Eumorfopoulos Collection, illustrated in Jessica Harrison-Hall, Catalogue of Late Yuan and Ming Ceramics in the British Museum, London, 2001, pl. II:I80, p.344; one from the Schiller Collection at the Bristol Museums and Art Gallery, object number N2647; one from the Axel and Nora Lundgren Collection in the Museum of Far Eastern Antiquities in Stockholm with an inventory number ÖM-1977-0098, published in Jan Wirgin, Chinese Ceramics from the Axel and Nora Lundgren Bequest, BMFEA, Stockholm, 1978; and the last from the collection of the Hong Kong Museum of Art which is illustrated in Monochrome Ceramics of Mind and Ch’ing Dynasties, Hong Kong, pl. 57, p. 63.