Lot Essay
A dish of identical design and similar size is in the National Museum of China, illustrated in Studies of the Collections of the National Museum of China, Shanghai, 2007, no. 131. A similar example from the Weishaupt Collection is illustrated by Gunhild Avitabile, Vom Schatz der Drachen - From the Dragon's Treasure, London, 1987, p. 32, no. 21. A number of Jiaqing-marked examples of the same design have been sold at auction; one was sold at Sotheby's Hong Kong, 9 April 2006, lot 1741; another one at Sotheby's Hong Kong, 8 October 2008, lot 260 ; and also one sold in Christie's New York, 25 September 2020, lot 1835.
Dishes of similar size and design are also found with different coloured grounds. A turquoise-ground dish from the E.T. Chow collection was sold at Sotheby's Hong Kong, 30 October 2002, lot 258.
Dishes of similar size and design are also found with different coloured grounds. A turquoise-ground dish from the E.T. Chow collection was sold at Sotheby's Hong Kong, 30 October 2002, lot 258.