Lot Essay
Compare a pair of blue and white dishes painted with the same character in the center, as well as eight characters inscribed around the well, and described as 'a mantra in Lantsa script', illustrated by Regina Krahl, Chinese Ceramics in the Topkapi Saray Museum, London, 1986 vol. II, p. 436, col. pl. 640 and p. 537, fig. 640.