Lot Essay
This design is found on a similar Yongzheng-marked stem bowl in the Palace Museum Collection, Beijing, illustrated in The Complete Treasures of the Palace Musuem - 36 - Blue and White Porcelain with Underglazed Red (III), Hong Kong, p. 223, no. 204. Another is illustrated in Gu Tao Ci Zi Liao Cui, Beijing, 2005, 150, no. 128. See, also, the example where the mark has been effaced, which was dated to the Yongzheng period and sold in our Hong Kong rooms, 1 June 2011, lot 3918.