QIANLONG SEAL MARK AND OF THE PERIOD (1736-95)

A similar jar and cover in the National Palace Museum, Taibei, is illustrated in Porcelain of the National Palace Museum, Enamelled Ware of the Qing Dynasty, Book II, pls. a-d; for other examples, see Soame Jenyns, Later Chinese Porcelain, pl. XCI, fig. 2, from the W.W. Winkworth Collection; the S.C. Ko Tianminlou Collection, Catalogue, part 1, no. 114; Keitokuchin Jiki, pl. 118, from the Jingdezhen Ceramic Museum; and Selected Far Eastern Art in the Yale University Art Gallery, no. 385. A jar without its cover was sold in our Hong Kong Rooms, 4 November 1996, lot 786.