Lot Essay
The present lot compares favourably to another dish in the Victoria and Albert Museum with a fluted sides carved in crisp high relief with floral sprigs and bats and with a similar border of ornamental ruyi lappets as a border illustrated by Edward F. Strange, Catalogue of Chinese Lacquer, Victoria and Albert Museum, Department of Woodwork, London, 1925, pl. 17 and again E. Strange, Chinese Lacquer, London, 1926, pl. V. Comapare also a similar Qianlong-marked dish with deeper sides in the National Palac Museum, Taipei, illustrated in Gugong Qiqi Tezhan Mulu, A Special Exhibition of Lacquerwares in the National Palace Museum, Taipei, 1981, no. 45.