Lot Essay
A dish of identical design and similar size is in the National Museum of China, illustrated in Studies of the Collections of the National Museum of China, Shanghai, 2007, no. 131. A similar example from the Weishaupt Collection is illustrated by Gunhild Avitabile, Vom Schatz der Drachen (From the Dragon's Treasure), London, 1987, p. 32, no. 21. A number of Jiaqing-marked examples of the same design have been sold at auction: one was sold at Sotheby's Hong Kong, 10 April 2006, lot 1741; and another at Sotheby's Hong Kong, 8 October 2008, lot 2601.
Dishes of similar size and design are also found with different colored grounds: one with turquoise-ground from the E.T. Chow Collection was sold at Sotheby's Hong Kong, 30 October 2002, lot 258.