Jiajing six-character mark and of the period The interior with a central cartouche of two phoenixes chasing one another within a double-circle border, encircled by further four phoenixes in flight amidst wispy ruyi-head cloud scrolls beneath a meandering vine scroll at the rim, the exterior with a continuous scene of flying cranes dividing eight trigrams above rockwork, all finely painted between upward plantain leaves at the foot and ruyi-head scrolls at the rim, the base with the six-character kaishu mark within double circles in underglaze-blue, box. 22.7cm (9in) diam. (2).