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

Compare to another Qianlong-marked bowl with this decoration included in the Illustrated Catalogue of Ch'ing Dynasty Porcelain in the National Palace Museum, pl. 10; and a pair in The Chinese University of Hong Kong Museum illustrated in their 1995 exhibition Catalogue, Qing Imperial Porcelain from the Kangxi, Yongzheng and Qianlong Reigns, pl. 76. Compare also a bowl of this design with a Kangxi reign mark from the Grandidier Collection, in the Musee Guimet, illustrated in Oriental Ceramics, The World's Great Collections, 1981, vol. 7, no. 108.