A WHITE-GLAZED ANHUA-DECORATED STEMBOWL

YONGZHENG SIX-CHARACTER MARK AND OF THE PERIOD (1723-1735)

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A WHITE-GLAZED ANHUA-DECORATED STEMBOWL
YONGZHENG SIX-CHARACTER MARK AND OF THE PERIOD (1723-1735)
Incised on the exterior with lotus blossoms evenly spaced around the sides, each positioned beneath one of the Eight Buddhist Emblems, bajixiang, with a band of ruyi-heads surrounding the base above the pedestal foot incised with detached florettes on the knop and floral sprays below, the reign mark written in a line inside the foot
7 in. (17.8 cm.) diam., box

Provenance

Previously sold at Christie's New York, 29 November 1990, lot 201, and sold again at Sotheby's Hong Kong, 29 October 2001, lot 622
Greenwald Collection, no. 83

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Lot Essay

A closely related example similarly incised with the same motifs but decorated with a yellow enamel is illustrated by J. Ayers, Chinese Ceramics in the Baur Collection, Geneva, 1999, p. 212, no. 315 (A450); the Baur bowl is potted with the same circular protrusion on the stem foot but it appears to be smaller (12.5 cm. diam.) in size. Similar bajixiang-incised bowls raised on a splayed stem foot are known, such as the one illustrated in Chinese Porcelain - The S.C. Ko Tianminlou Collection, Hong Kong, 1987, pl. 134; and another stembowl (16.2 cm. diam.) was sold at Christie's New York, 18 September 2003, lot 331.

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