Lot Essay
Previously sold at Sotheby's Olympia, 10 June 2004, lot 615.
Similar vases of this shape and size are known, including the pair to this vase, also from the Toguri Museum of Art, sold at Sotheby's London, 9 June 2004, lot 11; one from the T. Y. Chao Collection, sold in our New York Rooms, 20 March 1997, lot 128; one illustrated by R. Krahl, Chinese Ceramics from the Meiyintang Collection, London, 1994, vol. 2, no. 936; one from the Victoria and Albert Museum, illustrated by R. Kerr, Chinese Ceramics, Porcelain of the Qing Dynasty 1644-1911, London, 1986, fig. 25; and a smaller example sold in these Rooms, 26 April 2004, lot 1094.
Similar vases of this shape and size are known, including the pair to this vase, also from the Toguri Museum of Art, sold at Sotheby's London, 9 June 2004, lot 11; one from the T. Y. Chao Collection, sold in our New York Rooms, 20 March 1997, lot 128; one illustrated by R. Krahl, Chinese Ceramics from the Meiyintang Collection, London, 1994, vol. 2, no. 936; one from the Victoria and Albert Museum, illustrated by R. Kerr, Chinese Ceramics, Porcelain of the Qing Dynasty 1644-1911, London, 1986, fig. 25; and a smaller example sold in these Rooms, 26 April 2004, lot 1094.