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

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A FINE COPPER-RED GLAZED STEMBOWL
YONGZHENG SIX-CHARACTER MARK IN A LINE AND OF THE PERIOD (1723-1735)
The well-potted deep bowl rising from a tall spreading foot to a flared rim, covered on the exterior with a copper-red glaze, the interior of the bowl and stem foot glazed white, the reign mark in a line inside the foot
6 in. (15.4 cm.) diam., box

Provenance

Previously sold at Christie's London, 4 December 1973, lot 397
Acquired from a private collection, Milan

Literature

A. du Boulay, Christie's Pictorial History of Chinese Ceramics, Oxford, 1984, p. 222, no. 2

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Lot Essay

Copper-red glazed stembowls appeared early in the Yongle and Xuande periods, of which there are very few extant examples. A similar Yongzheng-marked stembowl imitating the Xuande prototype is in the collection of the Shanghai Museum, illustrated by Lu Minghua, Imperial Porcelain of the Ming Dynasty, Studies of the Shanghai Museum Collection, Shanghai, 2007, p. 296, pl. 5-31.

Compare also a similar stembowl sold at Christie's New York, 18 September 2003, lot 335.

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