19TH CENTURY

A doucai dish of the same design, dated to the Yongzheng period, is in the collection of the Palace Museum, Beijing, and illustrated in Complete Collection of Treasures of the Palace Museum - 38 - Porcelain in Polychrome and Contrasting Colors, Hong Kong, 1999, p. 252, pl. 231. Another similar dish with a Qianlong mark, is illustrated in Qing Imperial Porcelain of the Kangxi, Yongzheng and Qianlong Reigns, Nanjing and The Art Gallery, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, 1995, no. 104. Compare, also, similar dishes sold at Christie’s London, 8 December 1986, lot 436 and Christie’s, Hong Kong, 29 April 2001, lot 599.