Lot Essay
Compare to a very similar example with gilt rims in the Palace Museum collection, Beijing, illustrated in Porcelains in Polychrome and Contrasting Colours, The Complete Collection of Treasures of the Palace Museum, Hong Kong, 1999, no. 223; another Yongzheng bowl and cover of this pattern in the Museum of Far Eastern Antiquities, Stockholm, is illustrated in Oriental Ceramics, Kodansha Series, vol. 8, 1982, col. pl. 65; other bowls in public collections include the British Museum example, illustrated by R.L. Hobson, The Later Ceramic Wares of China, pl. LV, fig. 1; and the Shanghai Museum example, illustrated in Chugoku Toji Zenshu, vol. 21, pl. 104.