Lot Essay
Other examples can be found in the Mottahedeh Collection, illustrated by D. S. Howard and J. Ayers, op.cit., vol.II, p.582, no.602; in the Gubbay Collection at Clandon Park, Surrey; and one formerly in the Eumorfopoulos Collection, illustrated by R. L. Hobson, Catalogue, vol.V, pl.XXXIV, no.E183. See also B. Rackham, Chinese Ceramics in Private Collections: the W. J. Holt Collection, pl.151, fig.265; G. C. Williamson, op.cit., pl.LX; and for the example previously in the Wanniek Family Collection in Paris, Catalogue no.105. See also a pair of ewers, previously in the Collection of H.R.H. the Duke of Gloucester, K.G., sold in these Rooms, 20 May 1954, lot 14 (¨525 to Conti); another pair, previously in the J. Ivan Yates Collection, sold in these Rooms, 1 July 1978, lot 44; and the ormolu-mounted pair sold in these Rooms, 13 May 1996, lot 128.