Lot Essay
Similar dishes include an example illustrated in Mayuyama, Seventy Years, Tokyo, 1976, vol. II, pl. 1020; one in the Germeentelijk Museum, Leeuwarden, illustrated by D. Lion-Goldschmidt, La Porcelaine Ming, Fribourg, 1978, fig. 291; and another sold in our London Rooms, 13 May 1986, lot 498.