Lot Essay
A similar dish from the British Rail Pension Fund exhibited at the Dallas Museum of Art, 1985-1988, was sold in our New York Rooms, 21 March 2002, lot 217. Other similar dishes are illustrated in Masterworks of Chinese Porcelain in the National Palace, col. pl. 37, in Toki Zenshu, Heibonsha series, no. 16, pl. 6, from the Yokogawa Collection, in Toji Taikei, vol. 46, fig. 14, in Orientations, December 1984, p. 50, in Chinese Porcelain, Part 1, Hong Kong, 1987, no. 80, from the S.C. Ko Tianminlou Collection, in The Exhibition of Chinese Ceramics of Eight Dynasties, National Museum of History, Taipei, 1987, p. 86, in The Wonders of the Potter's Palette, Hong Kong Museum of Art, no. 22. Another dish was sold in our Hong Kong Rooms, 13 January 1987, lot 475; and one example in these Rooms, December 12 1989, lot 172; and another in these Rooms, 18 June 2002, lot 251