Blue-and-white meiping, or plum blossom vase, 15th century, Ming Dynasty (1368 - 1644), Jingdezhen kilns, porcelain, with underglaze painting in cobalt-blue, 31.5 cm (height), 17 cm (diameter), at foot 10.3 cm (diameter). Bequeathed by J. Francis Mallett, 1947. EAX.1398 © Ashmolean Museum, University of Oxford