Lot Essay
A similar vase of this shape and size in the Victoria and Albert Museum is illustrated by Rose Kerr, Chinese Ceramics, Porcelain of the Qing Dynasty 1644-1911, London, 1986, p. 48, no. 25, and another is illustrated by Regina Krahl, Chinese Ceramics in the Meiyintang Collection, vol. II, London, 1994, pp. 256-257, no. 936. Compare, also, the vase sold in our Hong Kong rooms, October 8, 1990, The Jarras Collection, Part II, lot 351