Lot Essay
Previously sold in Hong Kong, 13 November 1990, lot 346.
Several similar dishes of this large size have been published, one in the Palace Museum, Beijing, illustrated in Wucai, Doucai: Porcelains in Polychrome and Contrasting Colours, The Complete Collection of Treasures of the Palace Museum, 1999, pl. 231; one included in the Nanjing Museum and the Chinese University of Hong Kong joint exhibition, Qing Imperial Porcelain of the Kangxi, Yongzheng and Qianlong Reigns, 1995, illustrated in the Catalogue, no. 104; another included in the exhibition Imperial Life in the Qing Dynasty: Treasures from the Shenyang Palace Museum, China, The Empress Place, Singapore, illustrated on the frontispiece of the Catalogue; and one sold in our London Rooms, 8 December 1986, lot 436.
Several similar dishes of this large size have been published, one in the Palace Museum, Beijing, illustrated in Wucai, Doucai: Porcelains in Polychrome and Contrasting Colours, The Complete Collection of Treasures of the Palace Museum, 1999, pl. 231; one included in the Nanjing Museum and the Chinese University of Hong Kong joint exhibition, Qing Imperial Porcelain of the Kangxi, Yongzheng and Qianlong Reigns, 1995, illustrated in the Catalogue, no. 104; another included in the exhibition Imperial Life in the Qing Dynasty: Treasures from the Shenyang Palace Museum, China, The Empress Place, Singapore, illustrated on the frontispiece of the Catalogue; and one sold in our London Rooms, 8 December 1986, lot 436.