Lot Essay
A similar Qianlong-marked bowl was included by The Chinese University of Hong Kong in their exhibition of Ch’ing Porcelain from the Wah Kwong Collection, 1973, no. 106, another example is included by Gordon Lang in The Powell-Cotton Collection of Chinese Ceramics, 1998, no. 88, pl. 16; a further pair of bowls of this pattern are illustrated by Torataro Yoneyama in Qing Porcelain in the Seikado Bunko Collection, 2006, no. 43, pp. 54-5.