Lot Essay
Compare a pair of similar dishes included in the exhibition, Qing Mark and Period Monochrome and Two-Coloured Wares, S Marchant & Son, London, June 1992, p. 17, no. 3 and a single dish illustrated in Chugoku bijutsu - Ten; Min, Shin no bijutsu (Art of the Ming and Qing Dynasties), Osaka Municipal Art Museum, 1980, p. 32, no. 1:129. See, also, another pair sold in our Hong Kong rooms, 29 April 2001, lot 693.