thinly potted, the gently rounded sides with a cut-out frieze of lotus borne on stylized stems, covered inside and out with a clear glaze that fills in the cut-out design to create a plique-a-jour effect, the base with the six-character seal mark in underglaze blue.

Provenance: Collection of John Milton Bonham (1835-1897).

Note: Compare a pair of Qianlong mark and period bowls of this design acquired by Stephen Junkunc, III from Yamanaka & Co. in 1937, sold at Christie's New York, 21st September 1995, lot 214. A bowl and cover of this design, gifted to the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York in 1923, was sold at Christie's New York, 15th September 2016, lot 966.

Sotheby's. Important Chinese Art, 11 september 2019