Lot Essay
A bowl of this pattern, size and date is illustrated by Regina Krahl, Chinese Ceramics from the Meiyintang Collection, vol. 2, London, 1994, no. 733; one is in the Baur Collection, illustrated by Ayers in the Catalogue, vol. IV, Geneva, 1974, no. A530, where the author mentions another in the Royal Ontario Museum; and a pair is illustrated in Zhongguo taoci daxi (Chinese Ceramics Series), Qingdai taoci daquan (Qing Ceramics , Taipei, 1987, p. 121 (bottom).