EARLY MING DYNASTY, 14TH-15TH CENTURY

Compare to a larger Longquan celadon three-tiered Daoist shrine in the British Museum (50.3 cm high), which has inscription on the back reading: Yongle bingxu chujie jidan (On an auspicious day of the Chu Festival (Dragon Boat Festival) in the bingxu year of the Yongle reign (1406)), illustrated in Chinese Pottery and Porcelain: From Prehistory to the Present, London, 1991, p.160, fig. 119.