Lot Essay
A bowl of this pattern from the Oppenheim Collection is illustrated by R. L. Hobson, Chinese Ceramics in Private Collections, fig.160; a pair from the Treitel Collection, exhibited in Berlin, 1929, Catalogue, no.914, is now in the Gemeente Museum, The Hague, Catalogue, no.313; and a pair from the Liddell and Frederick Knight Collections was sold in Sotheby's Hong Kong, 18 May 1982, lot 39. Compare also the famille verte bowl similarly enamelled, without a reign mark, in the Percival David Foundation, included in the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 1989 Exhibition, Imperial Art, Catalogue, no.47 and fig.33, p.78.