A LARGE MOULDED CELADON-GLAZED BOWL

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A LARGE MOULDED CELADON-GLAZED BOWL
QIANLONG SIX-CHARACTER SEALMARK AND OF THE PERIOD (1736-1795)

Well potted with deep rounded sides, crisply moulded and incised on the exterior with a continuous leafy scroll bearing six peony blossoms, between an archaistic cloud-scroll at the mouth rim and a key-fret band around the foot, the interior incised with a central peony spray enclosed within a roundel and further peony scrolls around the cavetto below key-fret, all covered in a lustrous celadon glaze pooling to a darker colour in the incised decoration and thinning on the moulded extremities
10 1/2 in. (26.6 cm.) diam., box

Lot Essay

A similar bowl was sold in these Rooms, 31 October 1994, lot 631; and a Yongzheng example, decorated with a lotus pond scene, is illustrated by A. du Boulay, Christie's Pictorial History of Chinese Ceramics, London, 1984, p. 219.

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