Chenghua Mark, Wanli/Tianqi (1573-1627) Painted at the center with a figure in a boat beneath a pine and near bamboo watching a flock of birds skimming above water, the scene set within a blue-ground foliate border below a cavetto with two rows of fifteen lightly molded and painted radiating lotus petals divided at the tips of the upper row with wan (swastika) symbols and each petal painted with individual flower and fruit sprays, all below the petal-form blue-painted rim, the exterior sides with two rows of lotus petals below alternating roundels of wan characters and lingzhi sprays, unmarked double circle to the base. 8 3/4in (22.2cm) diameter