A Pair of inscribed Yellow-Ground 'Famille-Rose' Teatrays marks and period of Jiaqing

the interior with a central panel of conforming shape enclosing a poem in iron-red, dated to the year Jiaqing dingsi, corresponding to 1797, set within a band of multi-coloured scrolling florets on a rich yellow ground, the sides similarly decorated to both interior and exterior, the yellow glazed base reserving the six-character mark in iron-red 

Sotheby's Hong Kong, 15th November 1988, lot 381.

Lobed dishes inscribed with the same poem by the Jiaqing Emperor, of which Bushell gives a translation in Oriental Ceramic Art, London, 1981, p.239, praising and advising on the proper preparation of good tea, have been sold in these rooms 20th May, 1987, lot 543, with lime-green borders, and 20th May 1977, lot 651, with turquoise borders. See a quatrefoil example from the Garner Collection illustrated in Soame Jenyns, Later Chinese Porcelain, London, 1951, pl. CXI, fig. 2.  Compare also the lobed Jiaqing dish from the Edward T. Chow Collection, enamelled with pheasants among rocks and flowers within similar lime-green borders, sold in there rooms, 25th November, 1980, lot 165.