The wide bowl with a slightly flaring rim is resting on a spreading foot, incised to the interior, exterior and stem foot with an undulating stylised Indian lotus scroll. The centre of the interior is incised with a Qianlong reign mark within double-circles. The stem bowl is covered overall with a white glaze pooling to a warmer greenish tint in the decoration, Japanese fitted wood box.

Note: Stem bowls of this form and decoration include one illustrated by J. Ayers, The Baur Collection, vol. III, Geneva, 1969, A418-419; another in the National Palace Museum, and illustrated in Special Exhibition of K'ang Hsi, Yung-Cheng and Ch'ien-Lung Porcelain Ware from the Ch'ing Dynasty, Taipei, 1986, no. 83; and one in the Palace Museum, Beijing, illustrated in the catalogue of Special Exhibition in Kaohsiung City, Great National Treasures of China, p. 282, fig. 74.