Bowl with bird on a flowering prunus branch. Height: 80 millimetres-Diameter: 178 millimetres. Porcelain with underglaze cobalt-blue, cobalt-blue glaze and slip decoration. Jingdezhen, Jiangxi province 江西省, 景德鎮. Ming dynasty, Wanli period, AD 1573–1620. On loan from Sir Percival David Foundation of Chinese Art. Registration number: PDF,A.632. © Trustees of the British Museum. 

Conical porcelain bowl. Monochrome blue glaze on the exterior with relief decoration in white slip of two groups of song birds perched on a prunus branch, with two butterflies between the groups. Underglaze blue conch shell on waves in a roundel on the interior.

Bibliographic reference: - Medley, Margaret, Illustrated Catalogue of Underglaze Blue and Copper Red Decorated Porcelains, London, University of London, Percival David Foundation of Chinese Art, School of Oriental and African Studies, 1976
- Pierson, Stacey, Illustrated Catalogue of Underglaze Blue and Copper Red Decorated Porcelains in the Percival David Foundation of Chinese Art, London, University of London, Percival David Foundation of Chinese Art, School of Oriental and African Studies, 2004