Lot Essay
Compare the similar bowl of this size in the National Palace Museum of Taiwan, Catalogue, Qing Dynasty Porcelain, pl.63; another exhibited, Qing Imperial Porcelain, Nanjing Museum, Chinese University of Hong Kong, 1995, Catalogue, no.5; two similar bowls in the Percival David Foundation, Catalogue, section 6, no.A 552. A similar bowl was sold in these Rooms, 5 June 1995, lot 230. Compare also the slightly smaller bowl (12¼in., 31.4cm. diam.) illustrated by J. Ayers, The Baur Collection, vol.III, no.A 446; another of this smaller size was sold in these Rooms, 6 June 1988, lot 114.