KANGXI PERIOD, CIRCA 1675-1700

A related dish decorated in the same palette with the same technique over a raised slip, is illustrated in S. Marchant & Son, Exhibition of Transitional Wares for the Japanese and Domestic Markets, London, 1989, p. 41, no. 58. It depicts, somewhat off-center, a kneeling foreigner carrying a tray on his head bearing tribute items of coral, a pearl and two rhinoceros horn cups. Like the present example, it also bears an apocryphal Xuande mark.