A BLUE AND WHITE BOWL

Details

A BLUE AND WHITE BOWL
YONGZHENG SIX-CHARACTER MARK IN UNDERGLAZE BLUE WITHIN A DOUBLE SQUARE AND OF THE PERIOD

With rounded sides flaring to a slightly everted rim, the exterior decorated in pale blue penciled line with a pattern of five foliate medallions set between lotus spray spandrels, within single line borders repeated at the interior mouth rim (small restored rim chip)
4 5/8in. (11.7cm.) diam.

Provenance

Baerwald Collection
John Sparks, September, 1937
Stephen Junkunc, III

Lot Essay

For a pair of larger examples, see Regina Krahl, Chinese Ceramics from the Meiyintang Collection, vol. 2, London, 1994, p. 136, no. 767. The author mentions that bowls of this design are known with Yongzheng, Qianlong and Jiaqing reign marks