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

Details

A FINE AND RARE BLUE AND WHITE ‘DRAGON’ BOWL
YONGZHENG SIX-CHARACTER MARK WITHIN DOUBLE CIRCLES AND OF THE PERIOD (1723-1735)
With deep rounded sides, the bowl is finely painted on the exterior in deep underglaze blue of purplish tone with two dragons striding amidst ruyi-clouds, the interior with an upright dragon within a double circle border.
3 3/4 in. (9.5 cm.) diam., box

Provenance

Sold at Bonhams London, 17 May 2012, lot 279

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Lot Essay

A bowl of identical design and size, formerly from Spink & Son Ltd., was sold at Christie’s Hong Kong, 28 May 2014, lot 3431.

A larger Yongzheng-marked blue and white bowl of very similar design is in the Nanjing Museum Collection, and illustrated in Treasures in the Royalty: The Official Kiln another Porcelain of the Chinese Qing Dynasty, Shanghai, 2003, p. 155. A larger bowl from the B.C. Tattenhall Collection of this dragon design was sold at Christie’s Hong Kong, 30 May 2006, lot 1399 (14.5 cm. diam.).

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