Lot Essay
A dish of the same shape and decoration, from the Pierpont Morgan collection which was included in the National Antique and Art Dealers Association of America exhibition Art Treasures, Parke Bernet Galleries, New York 1967, and subsequently on loan at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 1903-1905, was sold at Sotheby's London, 31 October 1972, lot 102. Compare also with a dish of this design illustrated by R.L. Hobson, The Later Ceramic Wares of China, London, 1925, pl. LVI, fig. 2.