YONGZHENG IMPRESSED FOUR-CHARACTER SEAL MARK AND OF THE PERIOD (1723-1735)

It is quite rare to find a monochrome moulded cup stand in this form from the Yongzheng period. A related example with similar design, but with six lobed petals and covered with a clair-de-lune glaze and formerly in the Edward T. Chow and Greenwald Collections, was sold at Christie’s Hong Kong, 1 December 2010, lot 2817. See also a related cup stand covered with a blue glaze with four characters in cobalt blue and dated to the 18th century illustrated by B. Gyllensvärd, Chinese Ceramics in the Carl Kempe Collection, Stockholm, 1964, pl. 816.