Chenghua mark, Late Ming, Circa 1643 With deep rounded conical sides painted at the center within a double circle with a corpulent hare seated in a night landscape below an osmanthus (guihua) tree with scudding clouds and a full moon, and further chrysanthemum and bamboo sprays, the cavetto plain and a wide key-pattern band at the rim, the exterior with three evenly-spaced butterflies on a plain ground below the rim and between double-line borders, double encircled Chenghua mark to the base. 7in (17.7cm) diameter