XUANDE SIX-CHARACTER MARK IN UNDERGLAZE BLUE IN A LINE AND OF THE PERIOD (1426-1435)

Compare to a few Xuande-marked bird feeders of identical design, including one in the National Palace Museum, Taipei, illustrated in Catalogue of the Special Exhibition of Selected Hsuan-te Imperial Porcelains of the Ming Dynasty, Taipei, 1998, no. 5 (fig. 1); one excavated at the imperial kiln site in Zhushan, Jingdezhen, illustrated in Xuande Imperial Porcelain excavated at Jingdezhen, Taipei, 1998, no. 55-9; and one sold at Christie’s Hong Kong, 9 October 2019, lot 164.