The bowl is finely enamelled to the exterior with six stylised upright flower sprays encompassed by a flower scroll, below a band of trefoils on a yellow ground at the rim. The interior is decorated with a flower spray encircled by a band of florettes and petals within arching trefoils.

Note: A similar bowl from the Simon Kwan Collection, exhibited at the Chinese University of Hong Kong, 1983, is illustrated in Imperial Porcelain of the Late Qing, Catalogue, no. 28. Another example was sold at Christie's Hong Kong, 29 May 2013, lot 2297.

Christie's. Important Chinese Ceramics and Works of Art, Hong Kong, 26 November 2014