A SMALL 'GUAN'-TYPE BOWL SEAL MARK AND PERIOD OF QIANLONG

of shallow rounded form supported on a narrow foot and rising to a dodecalobed foliate rim, covered inside and out with a thick, creamy grey glaze, infused with a network of golden and dark brown crackles, the rim and footring dressed brown, inscribed on the base with the four-character seal mark in underglaze-blue

See a similar 'guan'-type bowl with a Qianlong seal mark and of the period, but without the dressing at the mouthrim in the National Palace Museum, Taipei, illustrated in Catalogue of Special Exhibition of Sung Dynasty Kuan Ware, Taipei, 1989, pl.69; and its prototype dated to the Northern Song dynasty, illustrated ibid., pls.67 and 68.  Compare another bowl of similar form and glaze, published in Regina Krahl, Chinese Ceramics from the Meiyintang Collection, vol.II, London, 1994, pl. 879.