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Lot Essay
The dish crisply moulded with two spotted stags leaping amidst pomegranate scroll, one with a leaf stem in its mouth, below a band of lotus meander reserved on a stippled ground.
A Ding dish of this pattern from the Eumorfopoulos Collection is illustrated by J. Ayers, Far Eastern Ceramics in the Victoria and Albert Museum, London, 1980, pl. 22. Another dish of the same pattern in the Metropolitan Museum of Art is illustrated by S. Valenstein, A Handbook of Chinese Ceramics, New York, 1975, pl. 51.
A Ding dish of this pattern from the Eumorfopoulos Collection is illustrated by J. Ayers, Far Eastern Ceramics in the Victoria and Albert Museum, London, 1980, pl. 22. Another dish of the same pattern in the Metropolitan Museum of Art is illustrated by S. Valenstein, A Handbook of Chinese Ceramics, New York, 1975, pl. 51.