YONGZHENG SEAL MARK IN UNDERGLAZE BLUE AND OF THE PERIOD (1723-1735)

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A RARE GE-TYPE CIRCULAR TRIPOD BULB BOWL
YONGZHENG SEAL MARK IN UNDERGLAZE BLUE AND OF THE PERIOD (1723-1735)
Inspired by Song dynasty prototypes, with very slightly bowed, upright sides raised on three squat cabriole legs, the base of the interior somewhat convex, covered overall with an opaque glaze of pale greyish blue-green color suffused with a network of black ('iron wire') and pale gold ('golden thread') crackle, with a circle of pseudo spur marks on the underside
8 in. (21 cm.) diam.

Provenance

Stephen Junkunc, III.

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Lot Essay

A smaller Yongzheng-marked bulb bowl of this shape (18.4 cm.) glazed in imitation of Ruyao was included in the Min Chiu Society exhibition, Monochrome Ceramics, Hong Kong, 1977, no. 112. A white-glazed example, also smaller (15.5 cm.), of Yongzheng date in the National Palace Museum, Taipei, was included in the Special Exhibition of Ch'ing Monochromes, Taipei, 1981, no. 61. Compare, also, the smaller Ge-type example (16 cm.), with the same mark, in the T.Y. Chao Private and Family Trust Collections sold Sotheby's, Hong Kong, 18 November 1986, lot 91.

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