Provenance:Private London Collection; Sotheby's Hong Kong, 15th May 1990, lot 251; purchased from Marchant, London, 1991.Note:A Daoguang marked bowl painted in Yongzheng style is illustrated by Van Oort: Chinese Porcelain of the 19th and 20th Centuries, pl. 12; and a wine cup in Michel Beurdeley: La Céramique Chinoise, vol. 1, pl. 108.A pair of larger shallow bowls in the Shanghai Museum painted with a design of thirty magpies with Shende marks is illustrated in Selected Ceramics from the Collection of Mr. and Mrs. J. M. Hu, pl. 90.A Yongzheng bowl with this rare decoration in the Percival David Foundation of Chinese Art, now at The British Museum, is illustrated in Margaret Medley: The Worlds Great Collections, Oriental Ceramics, vol. 6, no. 273, collection no. 888.