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Lot Essay
No other bowl of this design appears to be published.
A variety of doucai decorated bowls of this type with different flowers are known, such as the example from the collection of Brian S. McElney, included in the Min Chiu Society Thirtieth Anniversary Exhibition, Selected Treasures of Chinese Art, Hong Kong Museum of Art, 1990, illustrated in the Catalogue, no. 163; one in the Umezawa Kinenkan, Tokyo, illustrated in Toji Taikei, vol. 46, Japan, 1973, pl. 65; a pair from the Paul and Helen Bernat Collection, sold at Sotheby's Hong Kong, 15 November 1988, lot 15; and another single bowl, previously from the Elphinstone Collection, sold in our London Rooms, 15 June 1998, lot 162.
A variety of doucai decorated bowls of this type with different flowers are known, such as the example from the collection of Brian S. McElney, included in the Min Chiu Society Thirtieth Anniversary Exhibition, Selected Treasures of Chinese Art, Hong Kong Museum of Art, 1990, illustrated in the Catalogue, no. 163; one in the Umezawa Kinenkan, Tokyo, illustrated in Toji Taikei, vol. 46, Japan, 1973, pl. 65; a pair from the Paul and Helen Bernat Collection, sold at Sotheby's Hong Kong, 15 November 1988, lot 15; and another single bowl, previously from the Elphinstone Collection, sold in our London Rooms, 15 June 1998, lot 162.