finely potted with deep rounded sides supported on a low foot, incised around the exterior with a dense floral scroll with five circular blooms borne on a single undulating stem wreathed by subsidiary sprigs and feathery leaves, the bowl covered overall save for the base with a green glaze with a slightly iridescent surface, the white base inscribed in underglaze blue with a six-character reign mark within a double-circle; 13.7 cm., 5 3/8  in.

Provenance: Meiyintang Collection.
Sotheby's Hong Kong, 9th October 2012, lot 5.

Literature: Regina Krahl, Chinese Ceramics from the Meiyintang Collection, London, 1994-2010, vol. 2, no. 887.

Notes: Monochrome copper-green glazed bowls are well known from the Yongzheng period (AD 1723-35), but the present piece with its flower pattern and its unusual, bold manner of engraving may be unique.

Sotheby's, Important Chinese Art, Hong Kong, 05 oct. 2016