It is extremely rare to find this combination of famille-rose enamels on a lemon-yellow back dish. The same design is seen on a pair of smaller (11.5cm) saucer dishes with gilded undersides, formerly in the collection of H.M. Knight, included in the exhibition The Arts of the Ch'ing Dynasty, Oriental Ceramic Society, London, 1963, cat. no. 211 and sold in our Hong Kong rooms, 1st November 1999, lot 392. Two ruby-back saucer dishes of the same design are also known. The first, formerly in the collections of Charles Russell (1866-1960), Barbara Hutton (1912-1979) and T.Y. Chao (1912-1999) was sold twice in our Hong Kong rooms, first on 29th November 1976, lot 624, and again 1st November 1999, lot 394. The second was illustrated in the Yamanaka catalogue of An Exhibition of Early Chinese Bronze, Jade and Ceramic Art, Yamanaka & Co., London, 1930, cat. no. 143.