The dish is painted in the 15th-century style with a stylised lotus spray in the centre, the border and reverse each with similar linked lotus garlands within double circles, the reverse has a Jiajing six-character mark in underglaze blue within a double circle. A Xuande-marked original is in the Percival David Collection (No. A677), now in the British Museum.

Literature: Anthony du Boulay, The Duberly Collection of Chinese Art at Winchester College (Winchester, 2019), p. 29

Provenance: Bequeathed as part of the Duberly Collection, 1978; purchased by Major Montagu and Lady Eileen Duberly from the Collection of Edward T. Chow, sold Christie’s, London, 27 November 1967, lot 51 (£529)

Location: Treasury, Gallery 2