Previously sold at Sotheby's Hong Kong, 19 May 1981, lot 587, again sold in the same rooms, 30 April 1996, lot 522.

Another Qianlong bowl of this design was included in the Special Exhibition of Dragon-Motif Porcelain in the National Palace Museum, Taipei, 1983, no.75; one from the Reemtsma collection was included in the exhibition Tausend Jahre Chinesische Keramik, Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe, Hamburg, 1974, no.228