A YELLOW-GLAZED DEEP BOWL QIANLONG SEAL MARK AND PERIOD |

the deep rounded sides sweeping to an everted rim, covered overall in a rich egg yolk-yellow glaze, the recessed base glazed white and inscribed with a six-character seal mark in underglaze blue

Collection of Lorant (1900-1990) and Vera (1916-1999) Goldschlager, coll. no. 37. 
Christie's Hong Kong, 30th April 2001, lot 670.
Marchant, London, March 2002.

Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, Montreal, Quebec, 2012-2019 (on loan). 

Karen Thomson, ed., The Blema and H. Arnold Steinberg Collection, Montreal, 2015, pl. 148.

The bowl is in overall good condition. There's a few firing imperfections to the footring. Expected wear and scratches to the glaze.
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Sumptuary laws permitted only the Emperor, Empress, or Dowager Empress to use wares glazed yellow on both the interior and exterior. Such a hue owes its color to the low amount of iron oxide present. Similar Qianlong-marked bowls, albeit slightly smaller, were offered in these rooms, 1st-2nd April 1974, lot 266, and 4th December 1984, lot 357.