Lot Essay
Similar dishes are illustrated by Walter Hoschstadter, Chinese Ceramics in the Buffalo Museum of Science, no. 55; Jan Wirgin, Sung Ceramic Designs, pl. 8f, in the Victoria and Albert Museum; Gray, Early Chinese Pottery and Porcelain, pl. 71B in the Seligman Collection; and also in Zhengyuan Wenwu, (Cultural Relics from Central Plains), no. 3, 1984, pl. 11, no. 7, found in Loyang, Hunan Province