QIANLONG SEAL MARKS AND OF THE PERIOD (1736-95)

A pair of Qianlong bowls of similar size and bearing the same well-painted decoration are in the collection of the Percival David Foundation of Chinese Art, and are described in Illustrated Catalogue of Qing Enamelled Wares, Revised Edition, London, 1991, p. 45, nos. 897 and 898. Cf. also, Oriental Ceramics, The World's Great Collections, vol. 6, 1982, no. 274. Other examples are illustrated in Selected Far eastern Art in the Yale University Art Gallery, no. 54 and by G. Lang in The Powell-Cotton Collection of Chinese Ceramics, Kent 1988, no. 90. A pair of similar bowls were sold in our Hong Kong Rooms, 31 March 1992, lot 653.

This was a design that continued to be popular in later reigns. A Daoguang bowl and cover with similar decoration is illustrated by Geng Baochang in Ming Qing ciqi jianding, Beijing, 1993, p. 303, pl. 513.