WANLI FOUR-CHARACTER MARK IN UNDERGLAZE BLUE AND OF THE PERIOD (1573-1619)

A blue and white dish of nearly identical size (18.2 cm. diam.) decorated with fish and waterweeds, also with a Wanli nianzao mark encircling a seal mark reading dehua changchun, is in the collection of the Art Museum, Chinese University of Hong Kong, and is illustrated in Yuan and Ming Blue and White Ware from Jiangxi, Nanchang, 2002, no. 96.