Each toad facing forward with brown webbed feet and slightly upturned heads with large bulbous eyes painted dark chocolate-brown, the white hollowed bodies with pimples and the backs with star-shaped apertures.
Provenance: Michel Beurdeley, Paris, 1954
A Spanish private collection.
Note: A similar green-glazed toad-shaped vessel, Qianlong, is illustrated in Treasures in the Royalty: The Official Kiln Porcelain of the Chinese Qing Dynasty, Shanghai, 2003, p.285.
Bonhams. FINE CHINESE ART, 17 May 2018, 10:30 BST, LONDON, NEW BOND STREET