YONGZHENG SIX CHARACTER MARK IN UNDERGLAZE BLUE WITHIN A DOUBLE CIRCLE AND OF THE PERIOD (1723-1735)

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A SMALL BLUE AND WHITE OVOID JAR
YONGZHENG SIX CHARACTER MARK IN UNDERGLAZE BLUE WITHIN A DOUBLE CIRCLE AND OF THE PERIOD (1723-1735)
The high-shouldered, tapering body finely decorated with one young and one mature pine tree with widely spreading branches that partially obscure two slender prunus trees, with bamboo growing in their midst, the decoration representing the 'Three Friends of Winter' (prunus, pine and bamboo), all below a narrow scroll border of detached clouds on the short, waisted neck
3½ in. (8.9 cm.) high

Provenance

Ralph M. Chait Galleries, New York.

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Lot Essay

Several jars of this design and small size are known including a pair illustrated by John Alexander Pope, Porcelains in the Frick Collection, vol. 7, New York, 1974, p. 69, nos. 65.8.124 and 125, (5.4 cm. high); and another smaller example (6.2 cm. high) in the S.C. Ko Tianminlou Collection illustrated by Liu Liang-yu, A Survey of Chinese Ceramics, vol. 5, Taipei, 1991, p. 90.

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