Lot Essay
Refer to John Alexander Pope, Chinese Porcelains from the Ardebil Shrine, Smithsonian Institution Freer Gallery of Art, Washington, 1956, pl. 123, no. 29.630 for a charger of similar size incised around the cavetto with lotus scroll, and no. 29.626 for another, also with the central cash motif, incised with peony scrolls in the cavetto. See, also, Regina Krahl, Chinese Ceramics in the Topkapi Saray Museum, Istanbul, vol. I, London, 1986, p. 329 for a number of such chargers, the most closely related being no. 356, which has a lotus scroll incised on the cavetto in a similarly "sketchy", loose style
