EDO PERIOD (LATE 17TH CENTURY)

For a similar pair in the China Summer Palace, Drottingholm, in the collection of the King of Sweden see R. Soame Jenyns, Transactions of the Oriental Ceramics Society, (1937-1938), vol.15, pl.10a. Similar pairs sold Christie's London, 19th July 1965, Lot 96, 18th February 1975, Lot 78 and 9th March 1987, Lot 338, this pair formerly in the collection of H.R.H. The Late Duchess of Kent.