Well potted with deep rounded sides, crisply moulded and incised on the exterior with a continuous leafy scroll bearing six peony blossoms, between an archaistic cloud-scroll at the mouth rim and a keyfret band around the foot, the interior incised with a central peony spray enclosed within a roundel and further peony scrolls around the cavetto below keyfret, all covered in a lustrous celadon glaze pooling to a darker colour in the incised decoration and thinning on the moulded extremities, Japanese wood box.

Provenance: A Japanese private collection.

Note: Two similar bowls were sold at Christie's Hong Kong, the first was sold 31 October 1994, lot 631; the second, 28 November 2006, lot 1587. A Yongzheng example, decorated with a lotus pond scene, is illustrated by A. du Boulay, Christie's Pictorial History of Chinese Ceramics, London, 1984, p. 219.

A large moulded celadon-glazed bowl, Qianlong six-character sealmark and of the period (1736-1795); 10 1/2 in. (26.6 cm.) diam. Estimate HKD 200,000 - HKD 300,000. Price realised HKD 192,000 at Christie's Hong Kong, 28 November 2006, lot 1587. © Christie's Images Ltd 2006

cf. my post: A large moulded celadon-glazed bowl, Qianlong six-character sealmark and of the period (1736-1795)