Chongzhen (1628-1644) Painted at the center in a mix of underglaze blue and overglaze enamels and iron-red with five small circular medallions each painted with a differing flowerhead, all reserved on a larger quartered cell-ground medallion picked out in iron-red with Y-pattern, hexagonal diaper, blossoms on scales and a square star-burst diaper, the deep cavetto further decorated in a mix of underglaze blue and overglaze enamels with branches of flowering peony, chrysanthemum, prunus blossom and pomegranate divided by single birds in flight and a butterfly, the everted rim painted in iron-red with furter flowerheads and cell pattern, the exterior sides painted in enamels green, brown, black and iron-red with two groupings of the so-called 'three-friends-of-winter', pine, bamboo and cherry blossom each divided by a flying bird, the rim-edge dressed in an iron-brown glaze. 10in (25.4cm) diameter