Lot Essay
Compare the porcelain ewer of different design but famille rose enamels, included in the exhibition, Imperial Life in the Qing Dynasty, The Empress Place, Singapore, p.85. Compare, also, two other porcelain examples, both with a different style of dragon handle and phoenix-head spout and decorated with a faux bois glaze, one illustrated in Kangxi, Yongzheng, Qianlong, Qing Porcelain from the Palace Museum Collection, 1989, no. 104, the other included in the Exhibition of K'ang-Hsi, Yung-Ch'eng and Ch'ien Lung Porcelain ware from the Ch'ing Dynasty in the National Palace Museum, Taipei, 1986, Catalogue, pl. 111
For ewers of this shape in other materials see a gilt-bronze, cloisonne and Peking enamel example bearing a Qianlong mark illustrated in Masterpieces of Chinese Enamel in the National Palace Museum, Taipei, 1971, pl. 17, as well as the cloisonne example illustrated by Wan-go Wen and Yang Boda, The Palace Museum: Peking, New York, 1982, no. 180
For ewers of this shape in other materials see a gilt-bronze, cloisonne and Peking enamel example bearing a Qianlong mark illustrated in Masterpieces of Chinese Enamel in the National Palace Museum, Taipei, 1971, pl. 17, as well as the cloisonne example illustrated by Wan-go Wen and Yang Boda, The Palace Museum: Peking, New York, 1982, no. 180