QIANLONG SIX-CHARACTER SEALMARK AND OF THE PERIOD (1736-1795)

A line drawing of this design is illustrated by Geng Baochang in Ming Qing Ciqi Jianding, Qingdai Bufen, p. 163, fig. 213. This pattern was first seen on Qianlong period bowls, and reproduced during successive reign periods. A Qianlong-marked example of this same pattern was sold at Christie's Hong Kong, 1 June 2011, lot 4013. Bowls of this pattern continued into the subsequent reigns, cf. a pair of Jiaqing bowls, formerly from the Jingguantang Collection, was sold at Christie's Hong Kong, 27 May 2008, lot 1778; and a Tongzhi-marked bowl included in the exhibition, Imperial Porcelain of Late Qing, University of Hong Kong, 1983, illustrated in the Catalogue, 97.