Lot Essay
A pair of dishes of this design was included in the Min Chiu Society exhibition, An Anthology of Chinese Ceramics, Hong Kong, 1980, illustrated in the Catalogue, no. 131. A similar dish from the Hong Kong Museum of Art was included in the exhibition, The Wonder of the Potter's Palette, Hong Kong, 1984, and illustrated in the Catalogue, no. 52; one in the Victoria and Albert Museum is illustrated by R. Kerr, Chinese Ceramics, Porcelain of the Qing Dynasty, London, 1986, pl. 23; one in the Shanghai Museum is illustrated in Zhongguo Meishu Quanji, vol. 3, 1988, no. 202; and another from the Paul and Helen Bernat Collection, was sold at Sotheby's Hong Kong, 15 November 1988, lot 23.