Lot Essay
Compare with another two archaistic bamboo vases of the same date, in the National Palace Museum, Taipei, included in the exhibition, Emperor Ch'ien-lung's Grand Cultural Enterprise, 2002, illustrated in the Catalogue, fig. v-37; and the other in the Palace Museum, Beijing, illustrated in The Palace Museum Collection of Elite Carvings, Forbidden City Publishing House, 2002, pl. 57.