Chenghua six-character mark, Tianqi/Chongzhen The vessel stoutly potted with rounded sides rising to an everted rim painted with gnarled prunus branches, the interior painted with an archaistic vase and square brushpots filled with a profusion of blossoming peonies, lotus buds, and fruiting pomegranate branches surrounded by hovering butterflies, the exterior with butterflies and ducks swimming in a lotus pond, Japanese box. 28cm (11in) diam. (2).