Lot Essay
For other examples by this potter, see John Ayers, Blanc de Chine, Divine Images in Porcelain, New York, 2002, nos. 72 - 74 and 77; and information about Xu by Robert H. Blumenfield, Blanc de Chine, The Great Porcelain of Dehua, Berkeley, 2002, p. 145. See also Lot 88 in this sale.