A blue and white 'floral spray' bowl mark and period of Yongzheng, with flared sides and broad everted rim supported on a splayed foot, painted in tones of cobalt blue stippled with simulated 'heaping and piling', the interior with a central medallion enclosing a flowerhead with serrated leaves encircled around the well by detached flowering sprays below floral sprigs around the rim, the underside similarly decorated below a band of key-fret and a 'classic' scroll encircling the foot, the base inscribed in underglaze blue with a six-character mark within double circles, 25.7 cm diameter. Provenance. Dr Walter Henderson, England, acquired circa 1930-1940s. Compare with a bowl sold Sotheby's, Hong Kong, 8 April 2013, lot 3144