A rare incised white-glazed biscuit 'dragon' dish, Mark and period of Hongzhi | 明弘治 白釉素胎雲龍趕珠紋盤 《大明弘治年製》款

Compare a dish of the same size in the British Museum, illustrated in Jessica Harrison-Hall, Ming Ceramics. Catalogue of Late Yuan and Early Ming Ceramics in the British Museum, London, 2001, pl. 7:3. Smaller examples include one (16.2cm diameter) in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, illustrated in Suzanne G. Valenstein, A Handbook of Chinese Ceramics, New York, 1989, pl. 155, and another (18.5cm) in the National Palace Museum, Taiwan, illustrated in Porcelain of the National Palace Museum. Monochrome Ware of the Ming Dynasty, vol. 2, Hong Kong, 1968, pls 2-2c. For a fragment of a Hongzhi dish with biscuit-fired dragon design from the Ming imperial kiln site, see Porcelain from the Ming Dynasty Imperial Kilns at Jingdezhen, Beijing, 2009, pl. 102.