ZHENGDE SIX-CHARACTER MARK WITHIN DOUBLE-CIRCLES AND OF THE PERIOD (1506-1521)

A dish of the same size and pattern in the collection of Peter and Irene Scheinman, was included in the exhibition, Born of Earth and Fire, Chinese Ceramics from the Scheinman Collection, The Baltimore Museum of Art, 1992, Catalogue no. 81. Other examples of slightly smaller size, some with slight variances in the positioning of the ribbon-tied lotus and grape are in the Percival David Foundation, illustrated in Oriental Ceramics, The World's Great Collections, vol. 6, pl. 37; the British Museum, illustrated in Oriental Ceramics, The World's Great Collections, vol. 5, pl. 187; the Koger Collection, illustrated by Ayers in the exhibition Catalogue, no. 72; the Fogg Art Museum, illustrated by Valenstein, Ming Porcelains, China Institute in America, 1970, Catalogue no. 36; one in the Matsuoka Museum of Art, included in Selected Masterpieces of Oriental Ceramics, 1984, Catalogue no. 63; and another included in Ming Porcelains from the Freer Gallery of Art, 1953, Catalogue nos. 31, 32.