Lot Essay
Cf. a pair of Qianlong bowls of this pattern from the H. M. Knight Collection included in the Oosterse Schatten Exhibition, Rijksmuseum, 1954, Catalogue no. 419. Another bowl is in the Victoria and Albert Museum, illustrated by Kerr, Chinese Ceramics, Porcelain of the Qing Dynasty, pl. 27; and one other example is illustrated by Lang, The Powell-Cotton Collection of Chinese Ceramics, no. 96. Compare also the example from the Paul and Helen Bernat Collection, sold in Hong Kong, 15 November 1988, lot 29.