A larger Wanli-marked dish (50 cm. diam.) with similar dragons but in reverse colours, was sold in these Rooms, 22 March 1993, lot 570. Compare also with two dragon chargers illustrated by H. Garner, Chinese and Japanese Cloisonne Enamels, plate F, with an illustration of the mark, op. cit., fig. 47C. A box and cover with similar stylised floral scrolls bearing a Wanli mark is in the Pierre Uldry Collection, illustrated by H. Brinker and A Lutz, Catalogue, no. 112.

An example of a basin in situ in the Chuxiugong (Palace of Gathering Excellence), supported on an elaborate rosewood inlaid with mother-of-pearl stand, is illustrated in Life of the Emperors and Empresses in the Forbidden City, p. 81

(US$45,000-50,000)