Lot Essay
Yellow-enamelled dishes of this size with Hongzhi marks include an example in the Palace Museum, Beijing, illustrated in Monochrome Porcelain, The Complete Collection of Treasures of the Palace Museum, Hong Kong 1999, p.44, pl.39 ; and from the National Palace Museum, Taipei, illustrated by Liu Liang-yu, Ming Official Wares, A Survey of Chinese Ceramics, vol. 4, Taipei 1991, p.155; compare also an example illustrated by R. Krahl, Chinese Ceramics in the Topkapi Saray Museum, Istanbul, vol. II, p. 447, no. 774; one in the Victoria and Albert Museum, illustrated by D. Lion-Goldschmidt, Ming Porcelain, Fribourg, 1986, pl. 113; and another sold in our New York Rooms, 21 September 2000, lot 303.