Lot Essay
Vases of this shape and pattern with a Kangxi mark, but of slightly larger size, are in the Victoria and Albert Museum, illustrated by Rose Kerr, Chinese Ceramics: Porcelain of the Qing Dynasty, 1644-1911, London, 1986, p. 15, pl. 5; in the Percival David Foundation, illustrated in Oriental Ceramics, The World's Great Collections, vol. 6, Tokyo, 1982, pl. 208; in the Baur Collection, illustrated by Ayers in the Catalogue, vol. IV, Geneva, 1974, no. A527; and in the Walters Collection, illustrated by S. W. Bushell, Oriental Ceramic Art, New York, 1980 (republished from an 1896 edition), fig. 225. Another from the Collection of Sir Harry and Lady Garner was included in the O.C.S. exhibition, Arts of the Ch'ing Dynasty, London, May-July 1964, Catalogue, pl. 43, no. 108