JIAJING SIX-CHARACTER MARK IN UNDERGLAZE BLUE AND OF THE PERIOD (1522-1566)

There appear to be no other published examples cups of this design and decoration. There is, however, in the Asian Art Museum of San Francisco, a Jiajing mark and period cup of a similar bell-form profile painted with three sheep on the exterior along with pine, bamboo, plum, palm trees, and taihu stones, as well a slightly narrower cup, also Jiajing mark and period, with a scene of a pavilion between arching columns; both examples are illustrated by He Li, Chinese Ceramics, A New Comprehensive Survey, New York, 1996, p. 225, nos. 424 and 426.