QIANLONG PERIOD (1736-1795), CIRCA 1738

For another famille rose example of this rare model as well as an engraving by Pieter le Normant (1674-1742) incorporating this cistern into an 18th-century interior, see W.R. Sargent, Treasures of Chinese Export Ceramics from the Peabody Essex Museum, Salem, 2012, cat. no. 150, pp. 286-288. For an example in blue and white, see D. Howard and J. Ayers, China for the West. Chinese Porcelain and other Decorative Arts for Export illustrated from the Mottahedeh Collection, London, 1978, I, p. 295.