18TH-19TH CENTURY

A pair of similar 'faux bois' jardinières, from the collection of the Duke of Norfolk, was sold at Sotheby's Monaco, 4 March 1984, lot 170. A Yongzheng-marked flower pot imitating wood grain is illustrated in Liu Liang-yu, Ch'ing Official and Popular Wares, A Survey of Chinese Ceramics, vol. 5, Taipei, 1991, p.129. See, also, a related Qianlong 'faux bois' jardinière illustrated in Catalogue of World Ceramics, Tokyo, 1956, fig. 43.