Lot Essay
Compare with the similar excavated dish included in the exhibition of Imperial Porcelain of the Yongle and Xuande Periods, 1989, Hong Kong Museum of Art, Catalogue, no. 67.
Other dishes of this size and pattern are in the Gulbenkian Museum of Oriental Art and Archaeology, University of Durham, illustrated in the Malcolm MacDonald Collection Catalogue, pl. XXXVII, no. 114; in the Kempe Collection, Catalogue, no. 160 and in the National Palace Museum, Taibei, Special Exhibition of Xuande Porcelain, 1980, Catalogue, no. 101. Two others from the Cunliffe Collection and the Clark Collection were included in the London O.C.S. Exhibition of Celadon Wares, 1947, Catalogue, no. 2 and 5
Other dishes of this size and pattern are in the Gulbenkian Museum of Oriental Art and Archaeology, University of Durham, illustrated in the Malcolm MacDonald Collection Catalogue, pl. XXXVII, no. 114; in the Kempe Collection, Catalogue, no. 160 and in the National Palace Museum, Taibei, Special Exhibition of Xuande Porcelain, 1980, Catalogue, no. 101. Two others from the Cunliffe Collection and the Clark Collection were included in the London O.C.S. Exhibition of Celadon Wares, 1947, Catalogue, no. 2 and 5