Lot Essay
A similar vase of this size in the Victoria and Albert Museum is illustrated by R. Kerr,Chinese Ceramics, Porcelain of the Qing Dynasty, 1644-1911, London, 1986, no. 25 ; and another is illustrated by R. Krahl,Chinese Ceramics in the Meiyintang Collection, vol.2, London, 1994, pp. 256-7, no. 936. Compare, also, the vase from a private Hawaiian collection and formerly in the T.Y. Chao collection sold in our New York Rooms, 20 March 1997, lot 128 ; and another from the collection of Mr. and Mrs. James E. Breece III, sold 18 September 2003, lot 342.