Lot Essay
Cf. the similar example in the Eumorfopoulos Collection, illustrated by R. Hobson, Catalogue vol.V, pl.XXXVIII, no.E199. A pair of dishes similarly decorated but with a band of dragons at the flattened rims from the Liddell Collection were sold in these Rooms 19 April 1983, lots 379 and 380, one of which was illustrated by A. du Boulay, Christie's Pictorial History of Chinese Ceramics, p.211, fig.2