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

Only a few other examples of this pattern are known, all seem to be decorated with famille-rose and doucai, these include one in the Shanghai Museum, illustrated in Selected Ceramics from the Collection of Mr. and Mrs. J.M. Hu, Shanghai, 1989, no. 68; one illustrated in Sekai Toji Zenshu, vol. 15, Tokyo, 1983, pp. 86-87, nos. 94 and 95; one in the Idemitsu Museum, illustrated in Chinese Ceramics in the Idemitsu Collection, Tokyo, 1987, fig. 947; one in the Seikado Bunko Art Museum, illustrated in Exhibition of Qing Ceramics from the Seikado Bunko Art Museum, Tokyo, 2006, p. 72, no. 62; a single one and a pair were included in the exhibition Ming and Qing Ceramics and Works of Art held at the Osaka Municipal Museum in 1980, see Catalogue,
p. 43, nos. 191 and 193, respectively; one sold at Christie’s Hong Kong, 28 November 2006, lot 1546; and one with the mark effaced sold at Christie’s New York, 24 March 2011, lot 1704.