鬥彩暗八仙紋盌 六字楷書款

This particular design appears to have originated during the Qianlong period as an adaptation of Ming-style doucai Kangxi period ogee bowls and remained popular throughout the 18th and 19th centuries. A Qianlong-marked example in the Tokyo National Museum is illustrated in the Catalogue of Tokyo National Museum: Chinese Ceramics, vol. 2, Tokyo, 1990, pl. 593; in the Umezawa Kinenkan Museum, Tokyo, illustrated in Toji Takei, vol. 46, Tokyo, 1973, pl. 28; a single dish of this shape and design was included in the exhibition Ch'ing Polychrome Porcelain, The Oriental Ceramic Society of Hong Kong, 1977, and illustrated in the Catalogue, no. 83; and another was included in the exhibition, Qing Imperial Porcelain, Nanjing Museum and The Chinese University of Hong Kong, 1995, illustrated in the Catalogue, no. 106. A Tongzhi-marked example was sold at Christie's New York, 1 June 1990, lot 329.