A pair of green-enameled 'dragon' jars and covers, Marks and period of Qianlong | 清乾隆 綠彩雲龍趕珠紋蓋罐一對 《大清乾隆年製》款

A closely related jar from the collection of W.W. Winkworth and illustrated in Soame Jenyns, Later Chinese Porcelain, London, 1951, pl. XCI, fig. 2, was sold twice in our Hong Kong rooms, 29^th November 1977, lot 128, and 1^st November 1999, lot 463. Another jar of this form and decoration is published in Porcelains of the National Palace Museum. Enamelled Ware of the Ch'ing Dynasty, bk. II, Taipei, 1969, pl. 13; and one is included in Chinese Porcelain in the S.C. Ko Tianminlou Collection, Hong Kong, 1987, pl. 114.

Compare also a covered jar of this type, from the collection of Edward T. Chow, sold in our Hong Kong rooms, 19^th May 1981, lot 537; another in the Jingdezhen Museum, Jiangxi province, illustrated in Heitokuchin jiki, Kyoto, 1982, pl. 118; and two jars each sold twice in our Hong Kong rooms, 18th May 1988, lots 291 and 292, and again, 8^th April 2011, lots 3171 and 3165 respectively.