An incised celadon-glazed bowl, Seal mark and period of Qianlong

Sotheby's London, 12th-13th July 2006, lot 563.

Compare a closely related bowl of this form in the Nanjing Museum, Nanjing, illustrated in Xu Huping, Treasures in the Royalty: the official kiln porcelain of the Chinese Qing dynasty, Shanghai, 2003, pl. 339. A few bowls of this form have also appeared at auction. See one sold in our Hong Kong rooms, 20th May 1980, lot 78; one sold at Christie's Hong Kong, 8th October 1990, lot 840; another sold in our Hong Kong rooms, 13th November 1990, lot 181; one, previously in the E.T. Hall Collection, sold at Christie's London, 7th June 2004, lot 243.