Composition

Square Canister with square neck, and saucer-shaped Dish, Freer Gallery of Art

Square canister, K'ang-hsi period, Chinese : Fitzwilliam Museum

A similar canister, possibly that painted by Whistler, is in the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge.

Saucer-shaped Dish, Munson-Williams-Proctor Institute

Square Canister with square neck, and saucer-shaped Dish, Munson-Williams-Proctor Institute

It is an illustration for Plate XVII in Thompson 1878 [more]. There are two preliminary studies, Saucer-shaped Dish [M.0629] and Square Canister with square neck, and saucer-shaped Dish [M.0630].