A gourd-shaped vase with nearly identical decoration rendered in gilt but against a blue ground, was included in the exhibition, Nineteenth Century Mark and Period Porcelain, Messrs S. Marchant and Son, London, p. 13, no. 1. A related Qianlong-marked iron-red double-gourd vase, from the Shanghai Museum is illustrated in Chugoku Toji Zenshu, Japan, 1981, no. 123; the Shanghai Museum example is raised on a splayed ring foot but the gilded design is closely related to the present vase.

Compare also with a pair of Jiaqing-marked double-gourd vases of this same pattern decorated in the famille rose palette from the Manno Collection, sold in our London Rooms, 21 June 2001, lot 105.