Compare a Qianlong-marked faux-bronze jar and cover of similar ovoid form, also in molded relief picked out in gilding on a textured ground, in the Baur Collection, illustrated by Ayers, vol. IV, Catalogue no. A654. The author comments, p. 12, on the 'striking phenomenon' that occurred during Qianlong's reign of 'the production of pieces made to simulate the appearance of all kinds of substances other than porcelain', among these 'metals of gold, silver, bronze and gilt bronze of both the inlaid and gold-splashed varieties'