QIANLONG SIX-CHARACTER SEALMARK AND OF THE PERIOD (1736-1795)

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A LARGE MOULDED CELADON-GLAZED BOWL
QIANLONG SIX-CHARACTER SEALMARK AND OF THE PERIOD (1736-1795)
Well potted with deep rounded sides, crisply moulded and incised on the exterior with a continuous leafy scroll bearing six peony blossoms, between an archaistic cloud-scroll at the mouth rim and a keyfret band around the foot, the interior incised with a central peony spray enclosed within a roundel and further peony scrolls around the cavetto below keyfret, all covered in a lustrous celadon glaze pooling to a darker colour in the incised decoration and thinning on the moulded extremities
10 3/8 in. (26.2 cm.) diam., Japanese wood box

Provenance

A Japanese private collection

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Lot Essay

Two similar bowls were sold at Christie's Hong Kong, the first was sold 31 October 1994, lot 631; the second, 28 November 2006, lot 1587. A Yongzheng example, decorated with a lotus pond scene, is illustrated by A. du Boulay, Christie's Pictorial History of Chinese Ceramics, London, 1984, p. 219.

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