清乾隆 青花釉裏紅花卉紋盞托 《大清乾隆年製》款

of globular form hollowed in the centre, supported on a circular dish and splayed foot, decorated around the exterior with iron-red pomegranates alternating with pendent trefoils, below a border of key-fret at the rim, the central dish and foot decorated with detached floral sprays, the interior of the foot inscribed in underglaze blue with a six-character horizontal seal mark

There is a minute chip approx. 0.3 cm to the rim of the central dish and further specks / fritting along the edge of the rim around. There are some scattered minute specks / soiling in the glaze, original to the firing. Otherwise the bowl stand is in good condition.The glaze is more blueish, not white as the illustration would suggest in the catalogue and the underglaze red more vivid. The cobalt blue is also more bright.
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