Provenance: John Sparks Ltd., London.
Sotheby's, London, 11 December 1984, lot 158.
Greenwald Collection no. 30. 

Literature: Gerald M. Greenwald, The Greenwald Collection, Two Thousand Years of Chinese Ceramics, 1996, no. 30. 

Note: A Dingyao dish of this pattern from the Eumorfopoulos Collection is illustrated by J. Ayers, Far Eastern Ceramics in the Victoria and Albert Museum, London, 1980, col. pl. 22, who mentions, p. 165, related factory molds inscribed with Jin dynasty dates. The same dish is illustrated by J. Wirgin, Sung Ceramic Designs, Stockholm, 1970, pl. 96a and fig. 20a, who describes this group of dishes, p. 200, with "two sika deer with large antlers among pomegranate scrolls", as an extremely fine example of the deer motif, which was rare in Dingyao. Another dish of the same pattern in the Metropolitan Museum of Art is illustrated by S. Valenstein, A Handbook of Chinese Ceramics, New York, 1975, pl. 51. 

Christie's. Fine Chinese Ceramics and Works of Art Part I and Part II Including Property from the Arthur M. Sackler Collections, New York, 24 March 2011