A blue and white dish for the Japanese market, Ming dynasty, ca. 1620/40, China, The centre decorated with a rock and trees, with a double border with ribbed relief. Marked with a fu (happiness) mark in underglaze blue. D 21 cm, Rim fritting/chips and typical manufacturing flaws and irregularities. No hairlines or restoration. For a similar plate in the Sir Michael Butler Collection of seventeenth century Chinese porcelain, see 'Leaping the Dragon Gate', by Teresa Canepa and Catherine Butler, 2021, illustrated on page 151.