IRON-RED AND UNDERGLAZE BLUE 'MYTHICAL' BEAST BOWL, QIANLONG SEAL MARK AND OF THE PERIOD

IRON-RED AND UNDERGLAZE BLUE 'MYTHICAL' BEAST BOWL, QIANLONG SEAL MARK AND OF THE PERIOD, the exterior decorated in underglaze blue with a band of nine sea creatures, amidst waves in iron-red, the rim and the foot with key fret bands, the interior with a central medallion of a winged dragon amongst further iron-red waves, 21cm diam Note: For a similar bowl see Selections of Chinese Ceramics and Bronzes from the Tsui Art Foundation, The Empress Palace Museum, Singapore, 1992, cat. no. 111; and another in the Roemer-Museum, Hildesheim, illustrated in Ulrich Wiesner, Chinesisches Porzellan. Die Ohlmer'sche Sammlung im Roemer-Museum, Hildesheim, Mainz, 1981, pl. 127.