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

Qianlong-marked dishes of this pattern are in the Tokyo National Museum, illustrated in the Catalogue of Tokyo National Museum: Chinese Ceramics, vol. 2, Tokyo, 1990, pl. 593; and in the Umezawa Kinenkan Museum, Tokyo, illustrated in Toji Taikei, vol. 46, Tokyo, 1973, pl. 28. One was included in the exhibition, Ch'ing Polychrome Porcelain, The Oriental Ceramic Society of Hong Kong, 1977, no. 83; and another in the exhibition, Qing Imperial Porcelain, Nanjing Museum and the Chinese University of Hong Kong, 1995, no. 106. See, also, the pair of bowls sold at Christie's New York, 19 March 2009, lot 559.