Lot Essay
Dishes with this design and the addition of the unusual iron-red crane roundel on the base, include a pair from the Rogers Fund, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, illustrated by S. Valenstein, A Handbook of Chinese Ceramics, New York, 1988, p. 247, nos. 249/250; a second pair from the Paul and Helen Bernat Collection, sold twice at Sotheby's Hong Kong, 15 November 1988, lot 12, and again, 13 November 1990, lot 330; and a single dish, dated to the Yongzheng period, illustrated in Porcelains in Polychrome and Contrasting Colours, The Complete Collection of Treasures of the Palace Museum, Hong Kong, 1999, pl. 219.
Another pair of dishes, apparently lacking the crane medallion, was included in the Hong Kong O. C. S. Exhibition of Ch'ing Polychrome Porcelain, 1977, illustrated in the Catalogue, no. 63.
Another pair of dishes, apparently lacking the crane medallion, was included in the Hong Kong O. C. S. Exhibition of Ch'ing Polychrome Porcelain, 1977, illustrated in the Catalogue, no. 63.