Previously sold Sotheby's London, 11 May 1983, lot 61.

Similar waterpots appear in a number of collections, such as the one in the Eumoforpoulos Collection, illustrated in the Catalogue, vol. 2, pl. XXVI, no. B89; one from the Hellner Collection, now in the Museum of Far Eastern Antiquities, Stockholm, illustrated in Oriental Ceramics, The World's Great Collections, vol. 9, no. 151; one illustrated by H. Trubner, Royal Ontario Museum Handbook, p. 60, fig. 74; by A. Leth, Selected Objects of Chinese Art in the Museum of Decorative Art, Copenhagen, 1959, no. 90, from the Alexander and Oigaard Collections; and one from the Asian Art Museum of San Francisco, illustrated by He Li, Chinese Ceramics: A New Comprehensive Survey, 1996, no. 244. Two such waterpots which still retain their original flat covers are recorded, one from the Harkness Bequest, illustrated by S. Valenstein, A Handbook of Chinese Ceramics, 1989, fig. 79; and the other in the Chang Foundation, Taibei, illustrated in Arts of China, February 1991, no. 66.

(US$150,000-180,000)