A CAFE-AU-LAIT-GLAZED BOWL QIANLONG SEAL MARK AND PERIOD

finely potted with low rounded sides rising to a slightly everted rim with raised double filets encircling the exterior, applied overall with a rich dark coffee-brown glaze, the base glazed white, seal mark in underglaze blue

The Jingguantang Collection.
Christie's New York, 16th September 1999, lot 367.

There is a small kiln adhesion and some patchy discoloration to the glaze on the interior. There is small retouched glaze flake on the rim edge.
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This form and glaze are most typically associated with the Yongzheng period. An example of which is illustrated by He Li, Chinese Ceramics, A New Survey, New York, 1996, p. 284, no. 565.  A dated Kangxi precursor is in the Percival David Foundation, illustrated in Oriental Ceramics, The World's Greatest Collections, vol. 6, Tokyo, 1982, no. 233.