A SMALL GLAZED CUT-WORK BOWL

Details

A SMALL GLAZED CUT-WORK BOWL
QIANLONG SEAL MARK IN UNDERGLAZE BLUE AND OF THE PERIOD

Thinly potted, the flared, rounded sides pierced with a band of lotus scroll enclosing six large blossoms and then covered overall with a transparent glaze which fills in the cut-out design to create a plique-a-jour effect
4¼in. (10.7cm.) diam., box

Provenance

Stephen Junkunc, III

Lot Essay

For larger, similar examples see footnote to the following lot. A similarly decorated bowl of this size, but of a different shape and without a foot ring, and of unmarked Qianlong date, is in the British Museum and illustrated by Soame Jenyns, Later Chinese Porcelain, London, 1951, pl. CIV (l)