Each dish is well potted with rounded sides rising from a short cylindrical foot, incised to the exterior with the Bajixiang, 'The Eight Buddhist Emblems', borne on a foliate scroll growing leafy tendrils. Each is covered inside and out with iridescent yellow glaze with the exception of the base which is covered with a clear glaze, box (2).

Provenance: The Edward T. Chow Collection
Sold at Sotheby's Hong Kong, 19 May 1981, lot 510. 

Literature: E.T. Chow and F.S. Drake, 'Kuan-Yao and Min-Yao, A Study on Imperial Porcelain and People's Porcelain from K'ang-hsi to the end of the Ch'ing Dynasty', Archives of the Chinese Art Society of America, XIII, 1959, pl. XIV, fig. 2.