Compare with other Yongzheng dishes of the same pattern and size, one is illustrated by Kerr, Chinese Ceramics, Porcelain of the Qing Dynasty, 1644-1911, pl. 86; another in the Shanghai Museum of Art, was included in the exhibition, Selected Ceramics from the Colletion of Mr. and Mrs. J.M. Hu, Catalogue, pl. 48; other similar examples were included in the Exhibition of Ch'ing Porcelain from the Wah Kwong Collection, Hong Kong, 1973, Catalogue, no. 87. Compare also with a pair sold in these Rooms, 31 October 1994, lot 614.

A further example is illustrated by Bartholomew, Terese Tse, 'Bontanical Puns in Chinese Art from the Collection of the Asian Art Museum of San Francisco', Orientations, September 1985, pp. 18-34, fig. 24. The author explains that the scene depicted invokes the traditional Chinese birthday greeting, 'May your happiness be as deep as the Eastern Sea and may you live to be as old as the Southern Mountain'.

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