Lot Essay
A similar pair of cranes is Drottningholm Palace are illustrated by Setterwall, Fogelmarck and Gyllensvärd, The Chinese Pavilion, no.FE85, p.295; and a single crane in the Peabody Museum, Salem, is illustrated by W.R. Sargent, The Copeland Collection, 1991, no.70, pp.153-155. See also the pair of cranes sold in these Rooms, 1 December 1997, lot 323.