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

A Jiajing dish of the same pattern and comparable size ( 19 ½ in. diam.) was sold at Christie's London, 17 June 2003, lot 6731. Another similar example is illustrated by J. Harrison-Hall, Ming Ceramics in the British Museum, London, 2001, p. 227, fig. 9:27, where the author notes that floral decoration was relatively rare in the sixteenth century and also that while the style of the painting follows early Ming design, there is no exact model from which this would have been copied, although the nianhao under the rim follows the Xuande precedent. Compare, also, the dish illustrated by R. Krahl and J. Ayers, Chinese Ceramics in the Topkapi Saray Museum, Istanbul, vol. II, p. 631, no. 926.