Lot Essay
A similar pair of crane at Drottningholm Palace are illustrated by Setterwall, Fogelmarck and Gyllensvärd, The Chinese Pavilion, no.FE85, p.295; and a single crane in the Peabody Museum, Salem, is illustrated by W. R. Sargent, The Copeland Collection, 1991, no.70, pp.153-155.