A FINE AND RARE INCISED CELADON-GLAZED 'FLORAL' BOWL YONGZHENG MARK AND PERIOD

the steep sides gently flaring to a subtly everted rim, incised with six rounded stylized flowerheads borne on a scrolling vine issuing further buds and tender leaves, covered overall in a pale celadon glaze draining to white at the rim, the recessed base similarly glazed and inscribed with a six-character mark in underglaze blue within a double circle
Diameter 6 1/2 in., 16.5 cm

Provenance:
Sotheby's Hong Kong, 28th November 1978, lot 181.
Marchant, London.
Collection of Professor E. T. Hall (1924-2001), coll. no. 53.
Sotheby's Hong Kong, 2nd May 2000, lot 541.
Marchant, London, June 2002.