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A pair of similar dishes are illustrated by Joseph, Ming Porcelains, pl.103. Others were included in the London Oriental Ceramic Society Exhibition of Monochrome Porcelain, 1948, Catalogue, no.184, and the Hong Kong Museum of Art Museum of Art Exhibition of Monochrome Ceramics, 1977, Catalogue, no. 81, Cf. also the similar Zhengde dishes in the Gulbenkian Museum of Oriental Art and Archaeology, University of Durham, illustrated by Legeza, Malcolm MacDonald Collection, Catalogue, pl.XCV, no. 260