TRANSITIONAL PERIOD, CIRCA 1640

A blue and white beaker vase of similar shape and with similar decoration in the middle and lower sections, but decorated in the upper section with a scene of birds amidst ornamental rocks and flower sprays, was included in the Hong Kong O.C.S. exhibition, Transitional Wares and Their Forerunners, Hong Kong Museum of Art, 29 January - 29 March 1981, p. 89, no. 65. An inscription on one side of that vase incorporates a cyclical date, gengchen , corresponding to 1640.