YONGZHENG SIX-CHARACTER MARK WITHIN A DOUBLE CIRCLE AND OF THE PERIOD (1723-35)

Details

a rare chenghua-style doucai jar and cover
Yongzheng six-character mark within a double circle and of the period (1723-35)
The body delicately painted and enamelled with five shaped cartouches containing lotus flowers, the spandrels with stylised lotus and a tricorn motif between bands of overlapping petals, the shallow domed cover with a lotus meander centering on a bud finial
6 in. (15 cm.) high

Provenance

Sold Sotheby's Hong Kong, 29 November 1977, lot 189
The British Rail Pension Fund, sold in Hong Kong, 16 May 1989, lot 67

Literature

Sotheby's Hong Kong, Twenty Years, 1993, no. 192

Special notice

VAT rate of 5% is payable on hammer price plus buyer's premium.

Lot Essay

Covered jars of this pattern were made to emulate the Chenghua doucai prototypes from as early as the Kangxi period. Compare, for example, the decoration on a Chenghua-marked but Kangxi period jar from the Wah Kwong Collection, included in the Hong Kong Exhibition of Ch'ing Polychrome Porcelain, 1977, Catalogue, no. 47. Compare also the Chenghua version illustrated in Mingdai Taoci Daquan, p. 212 with the same decoration, but closer in form to the jar exhibited by the Oriental Ceramic Society.

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