Lot Essay
The seal reads pian shi.
See R. E. Scott, Percival David Foundation of Chinese Art, A Guide to the Collection, pp.102 and 103 for a discussion of this group of famille verte dishes with Chenghua marks, in which 'the central design, with distracting details kept to a minimum, is restricted to the flat base area'; she illustrates one such dish from the collection (PDF 803) on pl.106 (left); another dish from this group in the Palace Museum, Beijing, is illustrated in Kangxi Yongzheng Qianlong, pl. 56; and another, in the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford, was included in the Memorial Exhibition of Eastern Ceramics from the collection of Gerald Reitlinger, 1981, Catalogue, no.136
See R. E. Scott, Percival David Foundation of Chinese Art, A Guide to the Collection, pp.102 and 103 for a discussion of this group of famille verte dishes with Chenghua marks, in which 'the central design, with distracting details kept to a minimum, is restricted to the flat base area'; she illustrates one such dish from the collection (PDF 803) on pl.106 (left); another dish from this group in the Palace Museum, Beijing, is illustrated in Kangxi Yongzheng Qianlong, pl. 56; and another, in the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford, was included in the Memorial Exhibition of Eastern Ceramics from the collection of Gerald Reitlinger, 1981, Catalogue, no.136