Lot Essay
Compare the similar dish in the British Museum, illustrated in Oriental Ceramics, The World's Great Collections, Tokyo, 1981, vol.5, fig. 195; another in the Umezawa Gallery illustrated in Mayuyama, Seventy Years, Tokyo, 1976, vol. I, p. 279, no. 838; and one in Ceramic Art of the World, Shogakukan Series, Tokyo, 1976, vol. 14, pl. 78. See, also, the example sold in our Hong Kong rooms, 29-30 October 1995, lot 712A.