Lot Essay
Compare a Kangxi clair-de-lune glazed jardinière carved with dragons from the British Rail Pension Fund, sold at Christie’s Hong Kong, 27 April 1997, lot 726; and a Kangxi clair-de-lune glazed vase carved with floral medallions in the Percival David Collection of Chinese art, now housed in the British Museum, London, illustrated by Rosemary Scott in Imperial Taste: Chinese Ceramics from the Percival David Foundation, Los Angeles, 1989, no. 40.