Lot 104. A pair of café-au-lait-glazed ogee-shaped bowls, Qianlong seal marks and of the period. Each 15.5cm (6 1/8in) diam. Sold for £20,000 (€25,971). © Bonhams 2001-2016.

The bowls supported on a straight foot, with deep rounded sides and a constricted waist, covered in a rich glaze of caramel-brown tone, the interior and base unglazed. (2). 

Provenance: acquired from Heinrich Peters Ostasiatische Kunst, Berlin, 19 October 1966 
A European private collection, and thence by descent

Notes: Compare with a very similar pair of café-au-lait-glazed ogee-form bowls, Qianlong seal marks and of the period, in the Sir Percival David Collection, museum no. PDF,A.572 and 573, illustrated by S.Pierson, A Collector's Vision: Ceramics for the Qianlong Emperor, London, 2002, p.112, no.98. Another example in the Zhuyuetang collection, is illustrated in Shimmering Colours: Monochromes of the Yuan to Qing Periods, The Zhuyuetang Collection, Hong Kong, 2005, p.229, no.152.

A similar pair of bowls, Qianlong seal marks and of the period, was sold at Sotheby's London, 13 May 2015, lot 185.

Bonhams. AUCTION 23237: FINE CHINESE ART, LONDON, NEW BOND STREET