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For two other Kangxi-marked yellow-glazed bowls of this shape and approximate large size see the example included in The Special Exhibition of K'ang-hsi, Yung-cheng and Ch'ien-lung Porcelain Ware from the Ch'ing Dynasty in the National Palace Museum, Taipei, 1986, Catalogue, p. 56, no. 16 and the bowl illustrated by Regina Krahl, Chinese Ceramics from the Meiyintang Collection, vol. II, London, 1994, p. 231, no. 894. The companion bowl to this latter example is in the Percival David Foundation, illustrated by Margaret Medley, Illustrated Catalogue of Ming and Ch'ing Monochrome in the Percival David Foundation of Chinese Art, London, 1973, no. A 520