An incised celadon-glazed foliate-rim bowl, Seal mark and period of Qianlong | 清乾隆 粉青釉刻花卉紋花口折沿盌 《大清乾隆年製》款

Compare a closely related bowl of this form in the Nanjing Museum, Nanjing, illustrated in Xu Huping, Treasures in the Royalty: the official kiln porcelain of the Chinese Qing dynasty, Shanghai, 2003, pl. 339. A few bowls of this form have also appeared at auction. See one sold in our Hong Kong rooms, 20th May 1980, lot 78; one sold at Christie's Hong Kong, 8th October 1990, lot 840; another sold in our Hong Kong rooms, 13th November 1990, lot 181; one, previously in the E.T. Hall Collection, sold at Christie's London, 7th June 2004, lot 243; and another sold in our London rooms, 4th November 2020, lot 277.