CHONGZHEN PERIOD (1628-1644)

For an example of a similar bowl, probably with character roundels, see Soame Jenyns, Later Chinese Porcelain, London, 1951, pl. LXVII, no. lB. A related example with floral medallions, from the collection of Mr. and Mrs. F. Brodie Lodge, was exhibited in Monochrome Porcelain of the Ming and Manchu Dynasties, Oriental Ceramic Society, London, 27 October-18 December 1948, Catalogue, no. 105. See, also, the cup from the Walters Collection, illustrated by S. W. Bushell, Oriental Ceramic Art, New York, 1980, (republished from an 1896 edition), p. 268, fig. 322.