Lot Essay
See the similar dish from the Victoria and Albert Museum, illustrated by F. et N. Hervouët and Y. Bruneau, op.cit., p.263, no.11.13; another, illustrated by G. A. Godden, op.cit., p.246, colour pl.14; and another in the Mottahedeh Collection, illustrated by D. Howard & J. Ayers, op.cit., vol.I, p.313, no.306. Compare also the smaller, more simple versions in iron-red, illustrated by F. et N. Hervouët and Y. Bruneau, ibid., p.263, no.11.14; another from the Musée Guimet, Paris, by M. Beurdeley, op.cit., cat.226; one from the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, by C. Le Corbeiller, op.cit., p.70, fig.32; and another from the British Museum illustrated by M. Jourdain and R. Soame Jenyns, op.cit., p.117, fig.87.