Related works :For an identical pair of vases and covers (same form, decoration and lion), see Christie’s NYC, Fine Chinese Ceramics and Works of Art, 18 september 1997, lot 375.
For an example of this type of jar, without finial lion, and decorated with a phoenix and a quilin, see Regina Krahl and John Ayers, Chinese Ceramics in the Topkapi Saray Museum, vol. III, Qing Dynasty Porcelains, London, 1986, p. 937, no. 2968.
For a very similar pair (with different seated lions), see Christie’s London, Export Art of China and Japan – The China Trade Sale, 7 april 1997, lot 86
For another similar pair (with a different seated lions, dated Kangxi ), see Christie’s London, Chinese Ceramics, Works of Art and Textiles Part I, 9 november 2016, lot 407 (property of a gentleman).
A pair of (smaller) jar and covers, of bulbous form but with the same decoration, from the collection of August The Strong, are illustrated by Deutscher Kunstverlag in The Dresden Porcelain Collection – Masterpieces – China/Japan/Meissen, 2007, p. 38. (Inv. no. P.O. 5430).
For a very similar pair of vases, from the Benjamin F. Edwards III Collection, see Christie’s NYC (20 January 2004, lot 137).
