A yellow-glazed dish, Mark and period of Hongzhi 

Minneapolis Private Collection. 

A closely related dish from the Qing Court Collection and still in Beijing is illustrated in The Complete Collection of Treasures of the Palace Museum. Monochrome Porcelain, Hong Kong, 1999, pl. 3; another in the National Palace Museum, Taipei, is published in Minji meihin zuroku [Illustrated catalogue of important Ming porcelains], vol. 2, Tokyo, 1977, pl. 78. One of the very rare examples of imperial dishes of this type to have reached the Near or Middle East is illustrated in Regina Krahl, Chinese Ceramics in the Topkapi Saray Museum, Istanbul, London, 1986, vol. 2, pl. 774.

Compare one from the H.M. Knight Collection, sold in our London rooms, 12th May 1970, lot 51, and again at Christie’s Hong Kong, 3rd December 2008, lot 2541; a pair of dishes from the Hall Family Collection sold in our Hong Kong rooms, 2nd May 2000, lot 503; and a further example sold at Christie's Paris, 15th June 2005, lot 204, and again in our Hong Kong rooms, 8th October 2013, lot 224