LATE MING/EARLY QING DYNASTY, 17TH CENTURY

For bronze vessels bearing the same mark as the present example, compare to a waterpot in the Palace Museum, Beijing, illustrated in Small Refined Articles of the Study, The Complete Collection of Treasures of the Palace Museum, Shanghai, 2009, pp. 7, no. 3, and a similar waterpot from the Blumenfield Collection, sold at Christie's New York, 22 March 2012, lot 1259.