Lot Essay
Cf. a similar example in the Weishaup Collection illustrated by Avitabile, From the Dragon's Treasure, no. 52; another from the Simon Kwan Collection, included in the Chinese University of Hong Kong Exhibition of Imperial Porcelain of the Late Qing, 1983, Catalogue, no. 49; and a pair sold in our New York Rooms, 1 December 1988, lot 336