Lot Essay
A number of similar examples have been published. One example is in the Baur Collection, illustrated by John Ayers, Catalogue, vol. I, Geneva, 1968, no. A30; the second is in the Bristol City Art Gallery and included in the 1954 Venice exhibition of Chinese Art, Catalogue, no. 483; a third one was included in Exhibition of Ancient Chinese Ceramics, Kau Chi Society of Chinese Art, Hong Kong, 1981, Catalogue, no. 35 and later sold at Sotheby's London, 11 December 1984, lot 233; another one is in the Eumorfopoulos Collection, Catalogue, vol. 2, pl. XXVI, no. B88; the fifth example is illustrated by John Ayers in Catalogue of the Seligman Collection, vol. II, 1964, pl. XXXIV, no. D.94.