Painted with scrolling flowering peonies below a shoulder with four shaped panels enclosing flower sprays, the lower part with three flower sprays between double lines.

This was one of the last pieces bought by the Duberlys and was the highest price they paid for any piece of porcelain, as it was considered to be an important example of Yuan blue and white. Today some scholars have expressed doubts as to whether it is even Ming provincial ware, or rather a modern copy.

Literature: Anthony du Boulay, The Duberly Collection of Chinese Art at Winchester College (Winchester, 2019), p. 28

Provenance: Bequeathed as part of the Duberly Collection, 1978; purchased by Major Montagu and Lady Eileen Duberly from John Sparks, 8 February 1967 (£1,300)

Location: Not on display