A wucai 'dragon and phoenix' bowl, Seal mark and period of Qianlong

Collection of Sir Thomas Beaumont Hohler (1871-1946), and thence by descent. 

Compare a closely related bowl from the Qing Court Collection, now housed in the Palace Museum, Beijing, illustrated in The Complete Collection of Treasures of the Palace Museum: Porcelains in Polychrome and Contrasting Colours, Beijing, 1999, pl. 136; another in the Roemer Museum, Hildesheim, is illustrated in Ulrich Wiesner, Chinesisches Porzellan: Die Ohlmer'sche Sammlung im Roemer-Museum, Hildesheim, Mainz am Rhein, 1981, pl. 123; and another sold in our New York rooms, 17th March 2022, lot 174.