Lot Essay
Bowls of this pattern have been sold at auction, including one from the Scheinman Collection, sold in our New York Rooms, 23 March 1995, lot 114; and two others in these Rooms, 29 April 2002, lot 635 and 28 November 2006, lot 1532. Cf. also a Kangxi-marked blue and white bowl of this pattern, but lacking the yellow ground, illustrated in Kangxi Porcelain Wares from the Shanghai Museum Collection, Hong Kong 1998, pl. 18; while another is illustrated by G. Lang, The Powell-Cotton Collection of Chinese Ceramics, Kent, 1988, pl. 82, together with a Qianlong version in blue on yellow, pl. 91.