Lot Essay
A similar dish in the collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, is illustrated by Valenstein, A Handbook of Chinese Ceramics, revised edition, p. 246, no. 248; another from the Tokyo National Museum is illustrated in Oriental Ceramics Kodansha Series, vol.1, fig.160; a pair is illustrated by Gullard, Chinese Porcelain, vol. II, nos. 665 and 666; a last dish from the collection of Edward Kennedy sold in our New York Rooms, 2 December 1989, lot 370.