JIAJING SIX-CHARACTER MARK AND OF THE PERIOD (1522-1566)

A similar Jiajing mark-and-period underglaze-blue-decorated yellow-glazed square dish of approximately the same size is illustrated by J. Harrison-Hall in Ming Ceramics in the British Museum, London, 2001, p. 253, no. 9:87. Harrison-Hall describes the decoration as “a composite plant combining the Three Friends of Winter – prunus, pine and bamboo – with two lingzhi plants”.