SHUNZHI PERIOD, CIRCA 1645-1655

Compare a jar with similar decoration on the body in the Musée Guimet illustrated in Oriental Ceramics, The World's Great Collections, vol. 7, Japan, 1981, no. 104. Another similar jar is illustrated by Sir Michael Butler, et al., Seventeenth-Century Chinese Porcelain from the Butler Family Collection, Virginia, 1990, p. 107, no. 60, where the authors note "that pieces of this type were made for the Indian and Middle Eastern markets".