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

Details

A REVERSE-DECORATED CORAL-GROUND BOWL
QIANLONG SEAL MARK IN UNDERGLAZE BLUE AND OF THE PERIOD (1736-1795)
With deep rounded sides rising to a slightly everted rim, the exterior of the bowl is decorated with a pattern of conjoined leafy tendrils forming arabesques enclosing peony blossoms in the upper register and lotus blossoms in the lower register.
5 in. (12.7 cm.) diam.

Provenance

Carlo Maria Franzero (1892-1986) Collection, Italy.
Corrado Zingone Collection, Italy, no. 39.

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Lot Essay

A similar bowl with Qianlong mark, in the Percival David Foundation, is illustrated in Oriental Ceramics, The World's Great Collections, vol. 6, Tokyo, 1982, pl. 94; and three bowls, also with Qianlong marks, in the Ohlmer Collection, Roemer Museum, Hildesheim, are illustrated by U. Wiesner, Chinesisches Porzellan, Mainz am Rhein, 1981, no. 130-2.

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