A FINE CELADON-GLAZED MOULDED 'FLORAL' BOWL MARK AND PERIOD OF YONGZHENG

the well-rounded sides rising from a slightly tapering foot, moulded on the exterior in shallow relief with a formal flower scroll with finely incised details and an upright petal border below, covered overall with a pale bluish-green glaze, the white-glazed base inscribed in underglaze blue with a six-character reign mark within a double-circle

The bowl is in overall very good condition.
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A celadon-glazed bowl of this design, but incised with a floret on the interior, from the Eumorfopoulos Collection in the British Museum, London, is illustrated in R.L. Hobson, The George Eumorfopoulos Collection of Chinese, Corean and Persian Pottery and Porcelain, London, 1925-8, vol. 5, pl. XLI, no. E 314; another one in the Roemer-Museum, Hildesheim, Germany, is illustrated in Ulrich Wiesner, Chinesisches Porzellan. Die Ohlmer'sche Sammlung im Roemer-Museum, Hildesheim, Mainz, 1981, pl. 87. Several bowls of this design, but slightly smaller and incised on the interior, have appeared at auction. See for examples a pair from the Sir Joseph Hotung Family Trust, sold at Christie's Hong Kong, 1st June 2011, lot 3530; and one from the Meiyintang Collection, sold in these rooms, 7th April 2011, lot 23.