Lot Essay
A similar pair of bowls was included in the exhibition, Chinese Porcelain: The S.C. Tianminlou Collection, Hong Kong Museum of Art, 1987, vol. I, no. 148. See, also, the similar pair from the collection of Stephen Junkunc, III, sold in these rooms 21 September 1995, lot 248 and later exhibited by S. Marchant & Son, London, Imperial Porcelain of Kangxi, Yongzheng & Qianlong, 9 - 25 June 1996, no. 12. A single bowl of larger size (15.3cm.) in the Victoria and Albert Museum is illustrated by R. Kerr, Chinese Ceramics: Porcelain of the Qing Dynasty, London, 1986, p. 45, pl. 20.