A CORAL-GROUND 'LOTUS' BOWL QIANLONG SEAL MARK AND PERIOD

the deep rounded sides rising from a short slightly spreading foot to an everted rim, finely reverse decorated around the exterior with leafy lotus strapwork reserved on a rich coral ground, the interior glazed white 

This bowl is in very good conditon with the exception of a few minor glaze spots to the interior.
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A closely related example in the Percival David Foundation is illustrated in Oriental Ceramics. The World's Great Collections, vol. 6, Tokyo, 1982, col pl. 92; another is published in Geng Baochang, Ming qing ciqi jianding, Hong Kong, 1993, pl. 483; and a third in the Baerwald collection was included in the exhibition Ausstellung Chinesischer Kunst, Gesellschaft fur Ostasiatische Kunst, Berlin, 1929, cat. no. 1034. See also three bowls in the Ohlmer collection in the Roemer Museum, Hildesheim, illustrated in Ulrich Wiesner, Chinesisches Porzellan, Cologne, 1981, pls 30-32; two bowls sold in our Hong Kong rooms, 5^th November 1996, lot 787, and 31^st October 1995, lot 479; and a pair sold at Christie's London, 18^th June 2002, lot 245.