A FINE PAIR OF LARGE CHINESE IMPERIAL CELADON ‘PEONY’ BOWLS SIX-CHARACTER QIANLONG SEAL MARKS AND

A FINE PAIR OF LARGE CHINESE IMPERIAL CELADON ‘PEONY’ BOWLS SIX-CHARACTER QIANLONG SEAL MARKS AND OF THE PERIOD 1736-95 Each well potted with deep rounded sides, crisply moulded and incised on the exteriors with continuous leafy scrolls bearing six peony blossoms, between archaistic scrolling clouds to the rims and with keyfret bands around the feet, the interiors incised with central peony sprays enclosed within roundels and further peony scrolls around the cavettos below keyfret borders, all covered in a lustrous celadon glaze, together with wood stands, 26.5cm. (4) Provenance: an English private collection, and thence by descent. For similar examples, see Christie's Hong Kong, 31st October 1994, lot 631, and 28th November 2006, lot 1587. A related Yongzheng example decorated with a lotus pond scene is illustrated by A du Boulay, Christie's Pictorial History of Chinese Ceramics, p.219. 清乾隆 粉青釉纏枝芍藥大盌 一對 《大清乾隆年製》青花篆書款 來源：英國私人收藏，之後由其後人繼承。