Chongzhen period, c. 1628–1644
Each dish with lobed sides and painted in underglaze cobalt blue, one decorated with birds among flowering prunus branches, the other with cranes amidst lotus and aquatic plants, within floral borders. The rims dressed in iron-brown and the bases bearing apocryphal six-character Chenghua marks in underglaze blue.
Diameter: 7 in. (17.8 cm)
Height: 1¾ in. (4.4 cm)
Foot: 4¼ in. (10.8 cm)
Chongzhen period, c. 1628–1644
Each dish with lobed sides and painted in underglaze cobalt blue, one decorated with birds among flowering prunus branches, the other with cranes amidst lotus and aquatic plants, within floral borders. The rims dressed in iron-brown and the bases bearing apocryphal six-character Chenghua marks in underglaze blue.
Diameter: 7 in. (17.8 cm)
Height: 1¾ in. (4.4 cm)
Foot: 4¼ in. (10.8 cm)
