LATE 19TH CENTURY, IMPRESSED SCRIPT MONOGRAM MARK FOR JOSÉ FRANCISCO DE SOUSA, CALDAS DA RAINHA

See Marshall Katz, Portuguese Palissy Ware, New York, 1999, p. 78, fig. 103 for a very similar dish in the Duchin Collection; also see the New Orleans Museum of Art Exhibition Catalogue, Grotesquerie: Form, Fantasy and Function in 19th Century European Ceramics, 1997, New Orleans, p. 16, cat. no. 60.