Lot Essay
For a very similar vessel, with a Qianlong mark, see Regina Krahl, Chinese Ceramics from the Meiyintang Collection, vol. 2, London, 1994, p. 256, no. 935, where the author also notes that such "opaque olive-brown soufflé" glazes had been used at the Yaozhou and other north Chinese kilns during the Tang and Song dynasties, and were revived during the Qing period