A yellow-ground green-enamelled 'longevity' bowl, Mark and period of Yongzheng

Collection of Sir Thomas Beaumont Hohler (1871-1946), and thence by descent.

Compare a bowl of this type in the Victoria and Albert Museum, London, illustrated in John Ayers, Far Eastern Ceramics in the Victoria and Albert Museum, London, 1980, pl. 210; a pair in the Tokyo National Museum, Tokyo, published in Catalogue of Old Oriental Ceramics Donated by Mr. Yokogawa, Tokyo, 1953, pl. 212; and three single bowls sold in our Hong Kong rooms: 20th November 1984, lot 431; 9th November 1982, lot 222; and 12th October 2021, lot 47.

Bowls of this type were first created in the Kangxi period and continued to be produced throughout the Qing dynasty. For the Kangxi original see one in the National Palace Museum, Taipei, included in Illustrated Catalogue of Ch'ing Dynasty Porcelain in the National Palace Museum: K'ang-hsi Ware and Yung-cheng Ware, Tokyo, 1980, pl. 31.