Lot Essay
It is rather unusual to find this decoration on Yongzheng bowls with a green glaze. Similar decoration can readily be found on yellow-glazed bowls. For similar but smaller examples see Sotheby's, Hong Kong, The Paul and Helen Bernat Collection of Important Qing Imperial Porcelain and Works of Art, November 15, 1988, lot 71; another from the same collectionincluded in the O.C.S. Jubilee Exhibition of the Ceramic Art of China, London, 1971, catalogue no.247; and Regina Krahl, Chinese Ceramics from the Meiyintang Collection, London, 1994, p.227, pl. 886