A COPPER-GREEN GLAZED BOWL WITH INCISED FLORAL DECORATION MARK AND PERIOD OF YONGZHENG

the deep rounded sides supported on a low straight foot, incised around the exterior with a dense floral scroll with five circular blooms borne one a single undulating stem wreathed by subsidiary sprigs and feathery leaves, covered overall with a deep green glaze with a slightly iridescent surface, the base reserved in white and inscribed with a six-character reign mark within a double ring in underglaze blue

Regina Krahl, Chinese Ceramics from the Meiyintang Collection, London, 1994-2010, vol. 2, no. 887.

There are three faint hairline cracks to the rim (approx. 2 cm, 1.5 cm and 0.5 cm). The actual colour of the bowl is less yellow, more dense green with a warm iridescence compared to the catalogue illustration.
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Monochrome copper-green glazed bowls are well known from the Yongzheng period (AD 1723-35), but the present piece with its flower pattern and its unusual, bold manner of engraving may be unique.