Description The dish with apocryphal six-character Chenghua mark to the underside; the octagonal stand decorated with a river landscape, all raised on an unusual cross-form base molded and decorated with archaistic kuei dragon scrolls, four character Jiaqing mark to the rim and of the period (minyao)(L: 8 1/2 in.; 11 1/2 in.)PROVENANCE:Property formerly in the collection of Harry J. Haon II (1901-1989), thence by descentHaon was employed by E.I. du Pont de Nemours & Company, and was promoted in 1954 to the Foreign Relations Department as Manager of the European Office, London, England, until his retirement in 1962. Mr. Haon continued to live part-time in London into the late 1970s. It is believed that many of the Asian arts in his collection were acquired during this time in London.來源：Harry J. Haon II (1901-1989)舊藏，家族後人傳承。Haon曾任職於杜邦公司，並於1954年出任公司英國倫敦歐洲外交部的部長，直至1962年退休，Haon先生繼而流寓於倫敦至1970年代晚。可以想見的是，在倫敦生活時期亦為其購藏亞洲藝術品珍玩之時機。