Lot Essay
Similar Zhengde-marked dishes of this size are included in the Percival David Foundation, Catalogue, Section 6, no. 597; illustrated by Ayers in Chinese Ceramics, The Koger Collection, Catalogue, p. 93, no. 69; and the Gulbenkian Museum of Oriental Art and Archaeology, University of Durham, illustrated by 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 C. Davis, and in the O.C.S. Exhibition of Monochrome Porcelain, October-December, 1948, Catalogue, no. 195.
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