Lot Essay
Cf. a slightly smaller Yongzheng bowl with a very similar design in the Palace Museum, Beijing, illustrated in Wucai, Doucai - The Complete Collection of Treasures of the Palace Museum, Hong Kong, 1999, pl. 221; a pair of different shape included in the Hong Kong Museum of Art exhibition Splendour of the Qing Dynasty, 1992, illustrated in the Catalogue, no. 175; two bowls in the National Palace Museum, Taiwan, one in the Illustrated Catalogue of Ch'ing Dynasty Porcelain, pl. 91, and the other included in the Museum's Special Exhibition of K'ang-hsi, Yung-cheng and Ch'ien-lung Porcelain, 1986, illustrated in the Catalogue, no. 45; and another from the Goldshmidt Collection, sold at Sotheby's Hong Kong, 13 November 1990, lot 34.