A rare gilt-decorated celadon-glazed leaf-ꦦform ink palette,

Seal mark and period of Qianlong

清乾隆 粉青釉描金葉式筆掭 《大清乾隆年製》款

delicately rendered in the form of a leaf with the edges gently furled up forming the ink pool, further accentuated by a bat with its ꦡdetails picked out in gilt, the interior detailed with a faint tracing of a cicada which was possibly once gilt, covered overall in a lustrous pale bluish-green glaze save for seven tiny spur marks on the underside, wood stand

9.5 cm