Lot Essay
Cf. a pair of pale celadon-glazed dishes of the same shape and size and with the same mark included in the S. Marchant and Son exhibition of Qing Mark and Period Monochromes and Two-Coloured Wares, 1992, Catalogue, pl. 15, and another pair with a pale cobalt-blue glaze in the Percival David Collection, illustrated in the Catalogue, Section 6, nos. B560 and B561. Compare, also, the celadon-glazed example from the Collection of Mrs. James Alsdorf, sold in our New York Rooms, 3 June 1993, lot 238