Blue-glazed dishes of this date and size appear to be very rare. Compare the similarly potted white-glazed anhua-decorated dish of slightly smaller size (31.2cm.) dated to the Yongle period and illustrated by Mino and Robinson, Beauty and Tranquility: The Eli Lilly Collection of Chinese Art, Indianapolis Museum of Art, 1983, pl. 94 and another plain white-glazed dish, also of slightly smaller size (33.9cm.) with Xuande mark, sold Sotheby's, Hong Kong, May 19, 1981, lot 458, The Edward T. Chow Collection, Part II

Two dishes of approximately the same size and shape, which appear to have the same white-glazed rim as the present lot, are illustrated by John Alexander Pope, Chinese Porcelains from the Ardebil Shrine, Washington, 1956, pl. 110