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Lot Essay
Compare to an identical pair of dishes illustrated by E.T. Chow and F.S. Drake Kuan-Yao and Min-Yao, A study on Imperial Porcelain and People's Porcelain from K'ang-hsi to the end of the Ch'ing Dynasty, Archives of the Chinese Art Society of America, XIII, 1959, pl. I, figs. 1 and 2; and sold at Sotheby's Hong Kong, 19 May 1987, lot 296.
When the present dishes were exhibited in 1978, they were shown together with a Yongzheng blue and white dish of the same pattern, no. 90, which was sold at Sotheby's Hong Kong, 19 May 1987, lot 268.
A single dish of this pattern can be found in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, illustrated in Oriental Ceramics in the World's Great Collections, 1982, vol. 11, no. 144. Another from the Christina Loke Balsara Collection is illustrated in Laszlo Legeze, 'Ming and Ch'ing Imperial Tou-Ts'ai and Wu-Ts'ai Porcelains', Arts of Asia, September/October 1979, p. 102, sold at Christie's Hong Kong, 19 January 1988, lot no. 294.
When the present dishes were exhibited in 1978, they were shown together with a Yongzheng blue and white dish of the same pattern, no. 90, which was sold at Sotheby's Hong Kong, 19 May 1987, lot 268.
A single dish of this pattern can be found in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, illustrated in Oriental Ceramics in the World's Great Collections, 1982, vol. 11, no. 144. Another from the Christina Loke Balsara Collection is illustrated in Laszlo Legeze, 'Ming and Ch'ing Imperial Tou-Ts'ai and Wu-Ts'ai Porcelains', Arts of Asia, September/October 1979, p. 102, sold at Christie's Hong Kong, 19 January 1988, lot no. 294.