Lot Essay
A slightly smaller (16.5 cm. wide) purple-ground Dayazhai jardinière and stand of the same pattern is in the collection of the Palace Museum, Beijing, and illustrated in Gongyang yuci, Beijing, 2007, p. 211, no. 51 (lower), where another jardinière and stand of the same pattern, but on a white ground, is also illustrated, no. 51 (upper).