Lot Essay
A similar example in the National Palace Museum is illustrated in the Catalogue of a Special Exhibition of Ch'ing Dynasty Monochrome Porcelains in the National Palace Museum, Taipei, 1992, p. 61, no. 21; and another of slightly more squat proportion in the Percival David Foundation, is illustrated in the exhibition catalogue by M. Medley in Ming and Ch'ing Monochrome in the Percival David Foundation of Chinese Art, London, 1973, pl. VI, no. A527.