Lot Essay
The present dish, with its attractive pale olive-green glaze, is a classic example of fine Yaozhou ware. A nearly identical dish is in the Palace Museum, Beijing, and illustrated in The Complete Collection of Treasures of the Palace Museum, Porcelain of the Song Dynasty (I), Hong Kong, 1996, p. 154, no. 140, where it is suggested that the quatrefoil panel design is typical of Jin dynasty Yaozhou wares. A Yaozhou dish with a similar carved design, but with a buffalo in the central panel, was sold at Christie’s Hong Kong, 1 June 2016, lot 3122.