A fine famille-rose yellow-ground bowl mark and period of Qianlong

well potted with deep rounded sides supported on a slightly tapered foot rising to an everted rim, the exterior vibrantly enamelled in varying shades of blue, magenta, red, pink, green, white and purple with large peony, chrysanthemum, lotus, hibiscus and other blooms with interlocking dense scrolling leafy stems, all reserved on a rich yellow ground, the interior decorated in the centre with five iron-red bats, the base with a six-character seal-mark in underglaze-blue 

Christie's Hong Kong, 1st October 1991, lot 782.

A slightly smaller bowl of this design in the Nanjing Museum was included in the exhibition Qing Imperial Porcelain of the Kangxi, Yongzheng and Qianlong Reigns, Art Gallery, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, 1995, cat.no. 101; another in the British Museum, London, is illustrated in Hugh Moss, By Imperial Command, Hong Kong, 1976, pl. 6. Compare also a similar Qianlong bowl sold in these rooms, 30th October 2002, lot 255; and another also sold in these rooms, 27th April, 2003, lot 190.