Compare a bowl of the same pattern and period, but with a white interior, illustrated by G. Avitabile, From the Dragon's Treasure, Chinese Porcelain from the 19th and 20th Centuries in the Weishaupt Collection, p. 89, fig. 121, where the author states that the colours are for a consort of the third rank, fei.

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