YONGZHENG SIX-CHARACTER MARK IN UNDERGLAZE BLUE WITHIN A DOUBLE-CIRCLE AND OF THE PERIOD (1723-1735)

Yongzheng bowls of this design, with a similar decorative band at the rim, are illustrated in Chinese Porcelain, The S.C. Ko Tianminlou Collection, vol. 1, Hong Kong, 1987, no. 103; by J. Ayers in Chinese Ceramics, The Koger Collection, London and New York, 1985, no. 121; and in Chinese Ceramics in the Baur Collection, Geneva, 1999, vol. 2, pl. 203. A closely related Yongzheng-marked bowl of this type was sold at Christie's Hong Kong, 1 December 2010, lot 3200. For a bowl of this type, with the alternate border, see the example in the collection of the Victoria and Albert Museum illustrated by R. Kerr, Chinese Ceramics, Porcelain of the Qing Dynasty 1644-1911, London, 1986, on the front cover.