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Lot Essay
Compare with other Yongzheng-marked examples of this pattern and size, one in the Palace Museum, Beijing, illustrated in The Complete Collection of Treasures of the Palace Museum, Porcelains with Cloisonné Enamel Decoration and Famille Rose Decoration, Hong Kong, 1999, pp. 96-97, no. 84; another in the Baur collection, published in John Ayers, Chinese Ceramics in the Baur Collection, vol. 2, Geneva, 2000, p. 83, no. 204[A542]; a third in the Victoria and Albert Museum, London, is illustrated in A Handbook to the W.G. Gulland Bequest of Chinese Porcelain, London, 1950, no. VI(a); a fourth formerly in the Malcolm MacDonald collection and now in the Gulbenkian Museum of Oriental Art and Archaeology, University of Durham, illustrated by Legeza, Catalogue, London, 1972, pl. CXXV, no. 332; and a fifth from the Warre Collection, illustrated by R.L. Hobson, The Later Ceramic Wares of China, London, 1925, pl. LIX, fig. 3.
Compare also with similar bowls sold at auctions, including a pair from the Hall Family Collection, sold at Sotheby’s Hong Kong, 2 May 2000, lot 546; another, published in Sotheby's Hong Kong Twenty Years 1973-1993, Hong Kong, 1993, no. 370, later sold at Sotheby’s Hong Kong, 15 May 1990, lot 299, and again at Christie's Hong Kong, 29 May 2007, lot 1364; a third pair from the collection of Virginia H. Rogers, was sold at Sotheby’s New York, 17-18 September 2013, lot 346; and a fourth pair at Sotheby’s London, 6 November 2013, lot 76.
Compare also with similar bowls sold at auctions, including a pair from the Hall Family Collection, sold at Sotheby’s Hong Kong, 2 May 2000, lot 546; another, published in Sotheby's Hong Kong Twenty Years 1973-1993, Hong Kong, 1993, no. 370, later sold at Sotheby’s Hong Kong, 15 May 1990, lot 299, and again at Christie's Hong Kong, 29 May 2007, lot 1364; a third pair from the collection of Virginia H. Rogers, was sold at Sotheby’s New York, 17-18 September 2013, lot 346; and a fourth pair at Sotheby’s London, 6 November 2013, lot 76.