Lot Essay
Compare the present lot to a similar example illustrated in Liu Liang-yu, Ch'ing Official and Popular Wares, A Survey of Chinese Ceramics, Taipei, 1991, p.103. Also see a slightly larger pair of dishes with incised lotus scroll and Buddhist emblems, illustrated in R. Krahl, Chinese Ceramics in the Meiyintang Collection, vol. 2, London, 1994, p. 232, no. 897