Lot Essay
A pair of similarly decorated covered bowls, from the Palace Museum, Beijing, is illustrated in Kangxi Yongzheng Qianlong, Qing Porcelain from the Palace Museum Collection, Forbidden City Press, 1989, p. 201, pl. 30; another pair with Yongzheng marks in standard script is illustrated in Qing Imperial Porcelain of the Kangxi, Yongzheng, and Qianlong Reigns, Hong Kong, 1995, pl. 52; and a pair illustrated by S. Jenyns, Later Chinese Porcelain, London, 1951, pl. XCIV, fig. 3, was sold at Christie's New York, 28 June 1984, lot 448.