QIANLONG SIX-CHARACTER SEAL MARK IN UNDERGLAZE BLUE AND OF THE PERIOD (1736-1795)

Compare the present lot to a celadon-glazed flower-holder from the Yongzheng period in the Sir Percival David Foundation of Chinese Art, PDF, B. 578, now in the British Museum, published by Rosemary Scott in Illustrated Catalogue of Ming and Qing Monochrome Wares in the Percival David Foundation of Chinese Art, London, 1989, p.57. An almost identical flower-holder from the Qianlong period in the collection of the National Palace Museum, Taipei, was exhibited in Qingdai danse you ciqi tezhan (Special Exhibition of Monochrome glazed Porcelain of the Qing Dynasty), Taipei, 1981, no. 93. Another celadon-glazed flower-holder with carved flower tendrils from the Qianlong period is published by Reginal Krahl, Chinese Ceramics from the Meiyintang Collection, London, 1994-2010, vol. 2, no. 869, subsequently sold at Sotheby’s Hong Kong, The Meiyintang Collection, Part III, 3 April 2012, lot 7.