Lot Essay
See a similar example formerly in the Sir William Bennett Collection, England, the Widener Collection, U.S.A and now in the National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C., illustrated in Chinese Ceramics in the West, ed. Junkichi Mayuyama, Tokyo, 1960, p. 110, pl.111; one in the Leonard Gow Collection included in the International Exhibition of Chinese Art, 1935-1936, Royal Academy of Arts, London, Catalogue, no. 1684; and another from a private Portuguese Collection illustrated by Michel Beurdeley, The Chinese Collector Through The Centuries, Tokyo, 1966, p.196, fig.103