YONGZHENG SIX-CHARACTER MARKS WITHIN DOUBLE-CIRCLES AND OF THE PERIOD (1723-1735)

While closely related bowls of similar pattern and size from the Yongzheng to the Daoguang periods are known, this particular variation on the pattern using aubergine and yellow enamels to highlight the central blossoms appears to be very rare and no other examples appear to have been published. Compare with a similarly decorated Yongzheng bowl of the same size but with the central buds decorated in iron-red sold at Sotheby's Hong Kong, 14 November 1989, lot 222, and another sold at Christie's New York, 29 March 2006, lot 495. A Qianlong example in the Nanjing Museum Collection was included in the 1995 joint Nanjing Museum and Chinese University of Hong Kong exhibition Qing Imperial Porcelain, and illustrated in the Catalogue, no. 105. Another Qianlong example in the Meiyintang Collection is illustrated by R. Krahl, Chinese Ceramics from the Meiyintang Collection, vol. II, London, 1994. p. 136, no. 766. The author also mentions a Yongzheng example of the same pattern in the National Palace Museum, Taipei.