Amid the flourishing commercial economy and print culture of late Ming Jiangnan, the aesthetic trend of “no text without image” fostered mutual borrowings between porcelain decoration, woodblock prints, and poetry. In response to market demand, Jingdezhen kilns adapted popular print motifs—such as landscapes, figures, and opera scenes—into ceramic ornamentation, incorporating Tang and Song poetry, Yuan-Ming dramas, and contemporary verse into a “poetry-painting album” style that gained popularity during the Tianqi and Chongzhen reigns and was frequently used in export wares to Japan. This study examines 89 extant and excavated porcelain pieces from Jingdezhen. It first analyzes the distribution of poetic genres used in inscriptions. Next, it compares two main decorative strategies, poetry-painting compositions with integrated imagery and text and poetic inscriptions used as decorative fragments, and evaluates how each of these strategies addressed different consumer expectations in China and Japan. It then explores the rationale behind the kilns’ reliance on accessible anthologies like Qianjia shi (千家詩), focusing on how these selections aligned with the reading habits of literate but non-elite consumers. Finally, from the perspectives of both production and consumption, the study investigates whether these porcelain wares were perceived as utilitarian vessels, literary media, or aesthetic objects. It finds that Jingdezhen kilns employed early market-testing strategies during the Tianqi reign, validating the commercial viability of Tang-Song poetic inscriptions. This finding enriches our understanding of the introduction of integrated poetry-calligraphy-painting designs in the Chongzhen period by showing that it marked a key moment of stylistic innovation, and demonstrates that late Ming porcelain was a site of textual, material, and cultural convergence.