well-painted on a green ground with four aubergine, yellow or green horses galloping over swirling waves with high white crests amid scattered auspicious emblems around a central floret, similarly decorated on the exterior

Parish-Watson & Co, Inc., New York.
Collection of Winston F. C. Guest (1906-1982), New York.
Park Bernet Galleries, New York,  2nd December 1967, lot 61.
Ralph M. Chait Galleries, New York, 30th November, 1989.

There are three chips on the rim, one with an associated hairline crack approximately 2 in. (5.1 cm) long and an additional hairline crack approximately 2 1/2 in. (6.4 cm) long running from the rim. There are numerous chips under the glaze and the expected wear to the surface.
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Green ground biscuit forms are unusual; there are some bowls of this type but dishes are very rare. A dish very similar to the present example is illustrated in Sir Michael Butler et al, Seventeenth Century Chinese Porcelain from the Butler Family Collection, Alexandria VA, 1990, p. 180, no. 124.