A POLYCHROME ENAMEL DISH MING DYNASTY, CHONGZHEN PERIOD,CIRCA 1628-44

well painted with a hen accompanied by five chicks beneath a flowering peony, the underside with a seal mark in underglaze-blue



 

For a similar dish see Julia B. Curtis, Trade Taste and Transformation, Jingdezhen Porcelain for Japan, 1620-40, New York, 2006, no.65, p.86; another in the British Museum, from the Eumorfopoulos Collection; and another illustrated in Seventeenth Century Chinese Porcelain from the Butler Family Collection, no.29, where it is noted that the design of the hen and chicks is borrowed directly from the woodblocks illustrated in Cao ben shu pu (The Grass Poetry Manual), which was published by Huang Fengci in Huizhou, Anhui Province, in 1621 as one of the eight volumes of the Ba zhong hua pu (Manual of Eight Types of Painting).