Each dish is decorated to the centre with a deer next to a monkey crouching below a peach tree, all below a bird and insects in flight. Each rim is decorated with floral cartouches on a geometric band. One dish bears a double circle to the reverse, and the other dish bears an apocryphal Chenghua mark.
7.7/8 in. (19.9 cm.) diam.

One dish:
The Jarras Collection, Christie's London, 13 June 1990
Carew-Shaw collection, no. 294 (according to label)
Marchant, London

One dish: Hong Kong Museum of Art, Transitional Wares and Their Forerunners, Hong Kong: The Oriental Ceramic Society of Hong Kong, 1981, col. pl. no. 162.

One dish: Hong Kong Museum of Art, Transitional Wares and Their Forerunners, January-March 1981

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