Lot description
QIANLONG BLUE ENAMEL FOUR-CHARACTER MARK WITHIN DOUBLE-SQUARES AND OF THE PERIOD (1736-1795) The bowl finely potted with translucent rounded sides rising to a thin flaring rim, the exterior delicately enamelled in two shades of pink, yellow, green, brown and black with two swallows flying beside a flowering apricot tree intertwined with a willow tree with a gnarled trunk, the reverse inscribed in black with a ten-character poem in four lines, preceded by a ruby-red enamel seal, jiali, and followed by further two ruby-red enamel seals, xianchun and xuying 4 7/16 in. (11.3 cm.) diam., box
