A RARE MING-STYLE BLUE AND WHITE BOWL

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

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A RARE MING-STYLE BLUE AND WHITE BOWL
YONGZHENG SIX-CHARACTER MARK IN UNDERGLAZE BLUE WITHIN A DOUBLE CIRCLE AND OF THE PERIOD (1723-1735)
The exterior is decorated in inky underglaze blue simulating Ming-style 'heaping and piling' with a composite floral scroll between bands of key fret and petal lappets, and the slightly flared foot is encircled by a band of classic scroll, which is repeated at the interior rim above a leafy peony stem within a double circle in the center.
9 3/8 in. (23.7 cm.) diam., box

Provenance

Christie's New York, 16 September 1999, lot 325.

Lot Essay

A similar bowl with Yongzheng mark in the National Palace Museum, Taipei, is illustrated in Blue and White Ware of the Qing Dynasty, Hong Kong, 1968, Book 1, pp. 90-91, pls. 13-13c.
For a probable prototype see the Yongle bowl of similar shape and size decorated with lotus scroll on the exterior and peony scroll around the inner walls excavated from the late Yongle stratum and illustrated in Imperial Porcelain of the Yongle and Xuande Periods, Excavated from the Site of the Ming Imperial Factory at Jingdezhen, Hong Kong 1989, no. 44.

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