Lot Essay
Two other large fish bowls with similar decoration have been published. One was included in the exhibition, The Wonders of the Potters Palette, Hong Kong Museum of Art, February 11, 1984-June 1, 1985, Catalogue, no. 11; the other in the Palace Museum Collection, is illustrated in Qing Porcelain of Kangxi, Yongzheng and Qianlong Periods, Hong Kong, 1989, p. 38, no. 21. Compare, also, a related fish bowl of this shape incised with fish, aquatic plants and floating blossoms and covered in a celadon glaze, of Kangxi date, sold in these rooms, June 3, 1988, lot 281