Lot Essay
Compare with the pair of bowls with covers illustrated by Soame Jenyns, Later Chinese Porcelain, London, 1951, pl. XCIV, fig. 3, and sold in our New York Rooms, 28 June 1984, lot 448; an example exhibited in the Museum für Ostasiatische Kunst, Köln, 1965, Kostbare Chinesische Keramik, catalogue no. 134a, colour plate XVII, and sold in these Rooms, 8 June 1987, lot 52; one in the Avery Brundage Collection, illustrated in the Catalogue, pl. LXXIII C; and another in the British Museum illustrated by R. L. Hobson, The Later Ceramic Wares of China, pl. LV, fig. 1.