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A LARGE CELADON-GLAZED MOULDED FLORAL BOWL Compare the present lot to three similar bowls sold at Christie's Hong Kong:
QIANLONG SIX-CHARACTER SEAL MARK IN UNDERGLAZE BLUE the frst on 31 October 1994, lot 631; the second on 28 November 2006, lot
AND OF THE PERIOD (1736-1795) 1587; and the third on 1 June 2011, lot 3710. A Yongzheng example, decorated
The exterior is elaborately moulded and incised with a continuous leafy scroll with a lotus pond scene and sold at Christie's Tokyo, 17th February 1980,
bearing six peony fowers, between an archaistic cloud-scroll surrounding the is illustrated by Anthony du Boulay in Christie's Pictorial History of Chinese
mouth rim and a keyfret band around the foot. The interior is incised with a Ceramics, London, 1984, p. 219.
central peony spray surrounded by further peony scrolls around the cavetto.
The bowl is covered in a lustrous celadon glaze pooling to a darker colour in the
incised decoration and thinning on the moulded extremities.
10¼ in. (26 cm.) diam.
£25,000-35,000 US$33,000-46,000
€30,000-41,000

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