Lot Essay
Compare the bowl in the Shanghai Museum illustrated in Chugoku Toji Zenshu, vol. 21, pl. 104; one with a cover in the British Museum illustrated by Hobson, The Later Ceramic Wares of China, London, 1924, pl. LV, fig. l; and another with a matching cover in the Museum of Far Eastern Antiquities, Stockholm, Oriental Ceramics, The World's Great Collections, vol. 8, Tokyo, 1982, col. pl. 65. Two views of another bowl with matching cover are also illustrated in Zhongguo taoci daxi (Chinese Ceramic Series), Qingdai taoci daquan (Qing Ceramics), Taipei, 1987-89, p. 156