Lot Essay
Jiaqing-marked bowls of this pattern are recorded, as are rarer Kangxi versions. For examples of the later bowls see the O.C.S. Exhibition of Ch'ing Polychrome Porcelain, 1977, Catalogue, no. 100, subsequently sold in our London Rooms, 13 December 1982, lot 528; another, included in the Hong Kong Museum of Art Exhibition, The Wonders of the Potter's Palette, 1986, Catalogue, no. 93; and another, illustrated by Avitabile, From the Dragon's Treasure, Chinese Porcelain from the 19th and 20th Centuries in the Weishaupt Collection, p. 37, fig. 32