Lot Essay
A bowl of this pattern and date in the W.T. Walters Collection is illustrated by Bushell, Oriental Ceramics, fig. 73; another in the Indianapolis Museum of Art in the Eli Lilly Collection is described by Mino and Robinson as depicting pomegranate, loquat, hibiscus, peach and camellia in the Catalogue, pl. 118. Compare also with a single bowl of this type which sold in these Rooms, 20 March 1990, lot 806