Three bowls of this rare shape and colour are published. One was included in the Min Chiu Society Exhibition of Monochrome Ceramics, Hong Kong, 1977, Catalogue, no. 55; another is illustrated by Ayers in the Baur Foundation Catalogue, Vol. III, no. A 479; and the third in the Metropolitan Museum of Art is illustrated by Valenstein, A Handbook of Chinese Ceramics, 1989, no. 257.

Compare also a pair of cups of the same shape but covered in rose-pink enamel, together with a pair covered in iron-red enamel, illustrated in The Tsui Museum of Art, Chinese Ceramics, Vol. IV, Hong Kong, 1991, nos. 25 and 26 respectively. Cf. a Yongzheng-marked bowl of this shape and size but covered in a mint-green enamel, sold in these Rooms, 1 October 1991, lot 796.

(US$35,000-40,000)