Lot 28. A blue-glazed bowl, underglaze-blue Qianlong six-character seal mark and of the period (1736-95); 7 in. (17.8 cm.) diam. Estimate GBP 1,500 - GBP 2,000. Price realised GBP 2,151. © Christie's Images Ltd 2004

With deep rounded sides rising from a straight foot to a flaring rim, covered overall in an even cobalt-blue glaze under the white rim and stopping neatly around the foot, the base glazed white. 

Provenance: E. T. Hall Collection, no. 327. 

Note: A similar example is illustrated in Catalogue of a Special Exhibition of Ch'ing Dynasty Monochrome Porcelains in the National Palace Museum, Taipei, 1992, p. 99, no. 46.

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