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

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A FINE BLUE AND WHITE STEM BOWL
QIANLONG SIX-CHARACTER SEAL MARK IN UNDERGLAZE BLUE AND OF THE PERIOD (1736-1795)
The deep bowl, with rounded sides and flaring rim, is raised on a spreading stem, the exterior is painted in deep tones of cobalt blue with eight lanca characters beneath a band of classic lotus bloom roundels borne on scrolling stems around the rim, the band repeated around the tall spreading foot below flame lappets encircling the base of the bowl.
4¾ in. (12 cm.) high

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Lot Essay

A similar stem bowl in the Musée Guimet is illustrated by Beurdeley and Raindre, Qing Porcelain, London, 1987, p. 128, no. 171, and in Oriental Ceramics, The World's Great Collections, vol. 7, Tokyo; 1981, fig. 180. Another from the Tsui Art Foundation was included in the special exhibition, Gems of Chinese Art, Singapore, 1992, no. 97. A third was included in the exhibition, Selected Pieces from the Collections of the ROC Society of Collectors, Singapore, 1989, no. 115. See, also, the very similar stem bowl sold at Christie's Hong Kong, 27 November 2007, lot 1698.

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