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A VERY RARE
UNDERGLAZE-BLUE-
DECORATED
YELLOW-ENAMELED
STEM BOWL
QIANLONG SIX-CHARACTER SEAL
MARK IN UNDERGLAZE BLUE IN A LINE
AND OF THE PERIOD (1736-1795)
The bowl is well potted with wide faring sides
decorated on the exterior with panels of fruit
and fowers above crashing waves on the
splayed foot, and the interior is decorated with
a roundel of pomegranates.
7 in. (17.8 cm.) diam.

$100,000-150,000

PROVENANCE
Russell Tyson (1867-1963) Collection,
(another view) Chicago, before 1954.
The Art Institute of Chicago,
accessioned in 1954.
Stem bowls of this particular form are usually
found covered in monochrome glazes, and
rarely feature polychrome decoration. For
monochrome-glazed stem bowls of this form,
see the copper-red-glazed Qianlong-marked
example, of slightly larger size (7 3/8 in. diam),
sold at Christie’s New York, 13-14 September
2018, lot 1385, and the Yongzheng-marked
stem bowl of comparable size to the current
example, but covered in an apple-green glaze
and incised with the Eight Buddhist Emblems,
included in the Oriental Ceramic Society
exhibition, The Ceramic Art of China, 1971,
and subsequently sold at Christie’s London,
9 November 2004, lot 162.
清乾隆 黃地青花纏枝花卉紋高足盌
單行六字篆書款

(detail of interior)
(mark)

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