Lot 243. A celadon-glazed floral bowl, underglaze-blue Qianlong six-character seal mark and of the period (1736-95); 10 1/8 in. (35.7 cm.) wide. Estimate GBP 10,000 - GBP 15,000. Price realised GBP 19,120. © Christie's Images Ltd 2004

Of conical shape on a high straight foot and everted petal rim, the interior incised with wavy lines radiating from the central medallion, the exterior with similar lines rising from the foot, covered in an even celadon glaze of greenish-grey tone stopping neatly around the foot and thinning to white around the rim.

Provenance: S. Marchant & Son, London, 1981, no. 34
E. T. Hall Collection, no. 542.

Note: An identical bowl was sold in these Rooms, 14 July 1980, lot 214. Compare a Yongzheng example illustrated by Jan Wirgin in Chinese Ceramics from the Axel and Nora Lundgren bequest, Stockholm, 1978, no. 82.

Christie's. Chinese Monochrome Porcelain from the Collection of the late E. T. Hall, London, 7 June 2004