YONGZHENG SIX-CHARACTER MARKS WITHIN DOUBLE CIRCLES AND OF THE PERIOD (1723-1735)

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A FINE AND RARE PAIR OF BLUE-GLAZED BOWLS
YONGZHENG SIX-CHARACTER MARKS WITHIN DOUBLE CIRCLES AND OF THE PERIOD (1723-1735)
Each bowl has a wide flat base standing on a short straight foot with steep upturned flaring sides, the exterior is moulded with double strings above the base, covered in a deep blue glaze thinning to white on the extremities. The interior and the inside of the foot are glazed white, with the reign mark written at the centre of the interior below double lines in blue at the rim.
6 3/4 in. (17.3 cm.) diam. (2)

Provenance

Sold at Christie's Hong Kong, 1-2 October 1991, lot 797

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Lot Essay

The form of the current bowls is probably inspired by early Ming prototypes. Compare to the blue and white Xuande-marked bowls and covers, included in Catalogue of the Special Exhibition of Selected Hsuan-te Imperial Porcelains of the Ming Dynasty, National Palace Museum, Taipei, 1998, pls. 50-53. A similar Yongzheng-marked bowl with its cover was sold at Sotheby's Hong Kong, 8 October 2010, lot 2636.

Compare also to two other similar examples, sold at Sotheby's Hong Kong, 11 April 2008, lots 2908-2909; and another sold at Sotheby's London, 12 May 2010, lot 122.

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