Lot Essay
Daoguang bowls of this size and design are illustrated in Oriental Ceramics, Kodansha Series, vol.11, The Metropolitan Museum of Art 1982, no.163 ; one of a pair illustrated by J. Ayers, Chinese Ceramics in the Baur Collection, vol.2, Geneva 1999, pl.338 ; and included in the Chinese University of Hong Kong Museum's Special Exhibition, Imperial Porcelain of the Late Qing, 1983, illustrated in the catalogue no.42, from the Simon Kwan Collection ; see also a similar bowl sold in our Hong Kong Rooms, 23 March 1993, lot 761