The fencai palette on vases of this type is a development of the fine low-fired enamels of earlier Kangxi and Yongzheng periods. Compare, for example, a smaller Yongzheng vase sparsely enamelled with peaches in the Palace Museum, Beijing, illustrated in Kangxi, Yongzheng, Qianlong, Hong Kong, 1989, p. 210, pl. 39, to another Qianlong-marked example with a more crowded composition, op. cit., p. 335, pl. 16.

Cf. similar vases in the National Palace Museum, Taibei, illustrated in the Catalogue of Ch'ing Dynasty Porcelain, Ch'ien-lung and Other Wares, pl. 27; one in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, illustrated by S. Valenstein, A Handbook of Chinese Ceramics, New York, 1989, pl. 165; another in the Tokyo National Museum Catalogue, no. 640; and a fourth example in the British Museum, illustrated by R. Hobson, The Later Ceramic Wares of China, pl. LXV.

Several other vases of similar design have been sold at auction in recent years, one from the J. M. Hu Family Collection, sold in New York, 4 June 1985, lot 55; one from the T. Y. Chao Collection sold in Hong Kong, 18 November 1986, lot 134. Three others were sold in these Rooms, one from the John B. Trevor, Jr. Collection sold on 26 September 1989, lot 747; one sold on 30 October 1995, lot 760; and another sold on 5 November 1997, lot 954.