Size: 17.1 cm.(D)
A beautifully coloured shallow bowl with straight sides, with both exterior and interior decorated with a lustrous café-au-lait glaze, and the underside, within the shallow foot, glazed in white, with an underglaze blue Qianlong six- character seal mark in the centre.
This design of bowl was among the earliest porcelains produced in the imperial kilns in the Kangxi reign, and were continued to be made in the Yongzheng and Qianlong period. It is unusual to find bowls of this type with a Qianlong mark; see the collection of the Asian Art Museum, San Francisco, is illustrated by He Li, Chinese Ceramics, A New Comprehensive Survey, New York, 1996, p. 284, no. 565. See also similar bowls sold at: Christie’s, New York, 29 March 2006, lot 459 and Sotheby’s Hong Kong, 08 April 2011, lot 3012.