Lot Essay
Hugh Moss illustrates two nearly identical famille verte bowls of this pattern in By Imperial Command, pl. 77 from the Maze Foundation and pl. 78 which he dates 1722 to circa 1725; a third bowl with additional famille rose enamels from Grandidier Bequest in the Musee Guimet, Paris is illustrated as pl. 79 dated 1722 to circa 1728. Other famille verte Yuzhi bowls of this rare pattern have been published, one in the National Palace Museum, Taibei in their special exhibition Imperial Enamel Ware of the Qing Dynasty, Catalogue, 1979, no. 35; another in the Shanghai Museum is included in Chugoku Toji Zenshu, vol 21, pl. 105; a pair is illustrated by A. du Boulay, Christie's Pictorial History of Chinese Ceramics, p. 240, fig. 4, sold in our London Rooms, 25 November 1974