Lot Essay
Compare the similar vase illustrated by E. J. Sullivan, ed., The Taft Museum: Chinese Ceramics and Works of Art, New York, 1995, p. 588, no. 1931.68 and another of identical size illustrated by C. J. A. Jörg, Chinese Ceramics in the Collection of the Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam - The Ming and Qing Dynasties, Amsterdam, 1997, p. 107, cat. no. 102. A slightly smaller pair of vases with identical decoration is illustrated in Ausstellung Chinesischer Kunst, 12 January - 2 April 1929, Berlin, p. 301, cat. no. 806.