Lot Essay
Similar dishes are in the Percival David Foundation, Catalogue, Section 6, no.597; the Koger Collection, illustrated by J. Ayers, Catalogue, p.93, no.69; and the Gulbenkian Museum of Oriental Art and Archaeology, University of Durham, illustrated by I. L. Legeza in the Malcolm MacDonald Collection, Catalogue, pl.XCV, no.260. Others were included in the Exhibition of Ming Porcelains, China Institute in America, October 1970-January 1971, Catalogue, p.65, no.37 from the Collection of Samuel D. Davis; in the O.C.S. Exhibition of Monochrome Porcelain, October-December 1948, Catalogue, no.195; in the Exhibition of Monochrome Ceramics, Hong Kong Museum of Art, 1977, Catalogue, no.81 (a pair); and in The Arts Club of Chicago Exhibition, September-November 1970, Catalogue, no.c32 from the Collection of James W. and Marilynn Asldorf.