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Lot Essay
A dish of the same pattern and the same large size is illustrated by Jenyns, Later Chinese Porcelain, pl. XIX, no. 2. An example from the Rt Hon Malcolm MacDonald, O.M. Collection was included in the exhibition 'Selected Chinese Art from the Oriental Museum, Durham', 9-16 November 2000, Catalogue, no. 23. A third dish of this type was sold in our New York Rooms, 1 June 1990, lot 248 and another exhibited by the Oriental Ceramic Society, 'Loan Exhibition of the Arts of the Ch'ing Dynasty', Bristol City Art Gallery, 1964, Catalogue, no. 114.
The prototype for this pattern can be seen on early fifteeth century dishes illustrated by Pope, Chinese Porcelain from the Ardebil Shrine, pl. 31; in Mayuyama Seventy Years, Vol. I, no. 757; and in Oriental Ceramics, Kodansha Series, vol. 8, Museum of Far Eastern Antiquities, Stockholm, pl. 217.
The prototype for this pattern can be seen on early fifteeth century dishes illustrated by Pope, Chinese Porcelain from the Ardebil Shrine, pl. 31; in Mayuyama Seventy Years, Vol. I, no. 757; and in Oriental Ceramics, Kodansha Series, vol. 8, Museum of Far Eastern Antiquities, Stockholm, pl. 217.