Item No.: 1269
Name: A blue-and-white dish with a Sanskrit inscription
Period: Ming dynasty, Chenghua reign
Rim diameter: 17.8 cm
The Chinese catalogue entry compares the form, inscription, and dimensions of this dish with an example in the National Palace Museum, Taipei, describing them as virtually identical. See the museum’s Catalogue of the Special Exhibition of Chenghua Porcelain, p. 95.