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The marks Zhiyuan Tang Zhi may be translated as 'Made for the Far Distant Hall'. This hall mark is recorded as having been used for a number of blue and bowls of dragon and clouds design dating to the Qianlong period, see Geng Baocheng, Ming and Qing Porcelain on Inspection, Forbidden City Publishing House, 1993, p. 383.
A pair of bowls of this design was included in the exhibition, Ming and Qing Porcelain, Jeiwah's Gallery, Hong Kong, 1987, no. 18; and another bowl is illustrated by Patricia F. Ferguson, Cobalt Treasures, The Robert Murray Bell and Ann Walker Bell Collection of Chinese Blue and White Porcelain, 2003, p. 23, no. 14; where a similar pair of saucer dishes is also illustrated.
A pair of bowls of this design was included in the exhibition, Ming and Qing Porcelain, Jeiwah's Gallery, Hong Kong, 1987, no. 18; and another bowl is illustrated by Patricia F. Ferguson, Cobalt Treasures, The Robert Murray Bell and Ann Walker Bell Collection of Chinese Blue and White Porcelain, 2003, p. 23, no. 14; where a similar pair of saucer dishes is also illustrated.