A LATE MING BLUE AND WHITE DISH painted at the centre with sampans, junks and a barge in a mountainous riverscape amongst pagodas below a broad band of trellis and cell-pattern reserved with alternating animal and fruit cartouches at the border, the reverse with birds perched on flowering branches, tian lu fu gui jia qi, fine vessel for heavenly prosperity, wealth and honour mark (rim slightly fritted), mid 16th Century